2 Chronicles 30:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The posts went

Job 9:25

Esther 8:14

Jeremiah 51:31

Turn again

James 4:8

And he will

Isaiah 6:13

Escaped

Bible References

The posts went

"My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.

So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king's service, rode out hurriedly, urged by the king's command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel.

One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side;

Turn again

"Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;

"If you return, O Israel, declares the LORD, to me you should return. If you remove your detestable things from my presence, and do not waver,

Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old--

Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

"Yet even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

And he will

And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled." The holy seed is its stump.

Escaped

So Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.

Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.

So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, the spirit of Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, to this day.

If the LORD of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.