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For if you return to the LORD, your brethren 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 E'phraim and Manas'seh, and as far as Zeb'ulun; but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
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Only a few men of Asher, of Manas'seh, and of Zeb'ulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
12
The hand of God was also upon 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.