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For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him. ā
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So the couriers went from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.
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However, some men of Asher, of Manasseh, and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
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The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the Lord.
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And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly.