- 驿卒就把王和众首领的信,遵着王命传遍以色列和犹大。信内说,以色列人哪,你们当转向耶和华亚伯拉罕,以撒,以色列的神,好叫他转向你们这脱离亚述王手的馀民。
- 你们不要效法你们列祖和你们的弟兄。他们干犯耶和华他们列祖的神,以致耶和华丢弃他们,使他们败亡(或作令人惊骇),正如你们所见的。
- 现在不要像你们列祖硬着颈项,只要归顺耶和华,进入他的圣所,就是永远成圣的居所。又要事奉耶和华你们的神,好使他的烈怒转离你们。
- 你们若转向耶和华,你们的弟兄和儿女必在掳掠他们的人面前蒙怜恤,得以归回这地,因为耶和华你们的神有恩典,施怜悯。你们若转向他,他必不转脸不顾你们。
- 驿卒就由这城跑到那城,传遍了以法莲,玛拿西,直到西布伦。那里的人却戏笑他们,讥诮他们。
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- So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
- And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
- Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
- For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
- So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
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