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For as you return to the Lord, your kindred 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."
10
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.
11
Only a few from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
12
The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the officials commanded by the word of the Lord.
13
Many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the festival of unleavened bread in the second month, a very large assembly.