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2 Chronicles 30:6-8
New English Translation
2 Chronicles 30:6-8
New English Translation
6 Messengers[a] delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.
This royal edict read:[b] “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return[c] to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria.[d] 7 Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors,[e] provoking him to destroy them,[f] as you can see. 8 Now, don’t be stubborn[g] like your fathers. Submit[h] to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the Lord your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.[i]
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- 2 Chronicles 30:6 tn Heb “the runners.”
- 2 Chronicles 30:6 tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”
- 2 Chronicles 30:6 tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
- 2 Chronicles 30:6 tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”
- 2 Chronicles 30:7 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 19, 22).
- 2 Chronicles 30:7 tn Heb “and he made them a devastation” (or, perhaps, “an object of horror”).
- 2 Chronicles 30:8 tn Heb “don’t stiffen your neck” (a Hebrew idiom for being stubborn).
- 2 Chronicles 30:8 tn Heb “give a hand.” On the meaning of the idiom here, see HALOT 387 s.v. I יָד 2.
- 2 Chronicles 30:8 tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from you.” The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
2 Chronicles 30:6-8
New International Version
2 Chronicles 30:6-8
New International Version
6 At the king’s command, couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and from his officials, which read:
“People of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he may return to you who are left, who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria. 7 Do not be like your parents(A) and your fellow Israelites, who were unfaithful(B) to the Lord, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them an object of horror,(C) as you see. 8 Do not be stiff-necked,(D) as your ancestors were; submit to the Lord. Come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever. Serve the Lord your God, so that his fierce anger(E) will turn away from you.
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