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 and see no good.

So the men went out on the quick-running horses used on the king's business. They wasted no time and forced on by the king's order; and the order was given out in Shushan, the king's town.

Runners run to meet runners. Messengers follow messengers. They inform the king of Babylon that his entire city is captured.

Turn again

Seek Jehovah while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Jehovah says: If you come back, Israel, if you come back to me, if you take your disgusting idols out of my sight and you do not stray from me,

Make us come back to you, O Jehovah, and let us be restored. Make our days new again as in the past.

Say to them: 'As I am alive! Declares the Lord Jehovah. I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Only that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back! Turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'

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

Even now, said Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning!

Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded (uncertain) (doubter) (skeptic).

And he will

Even if one out of ten people are left it will be destroyed (burned) again. When a strong tree or an oak is cut down, a stump is left. The holy seed is the stump.

Escaped

King Tillegath Pilneser of Assyria attacked Ahaz. Instead of strengthening Ahaz, Tillegath Pilneser made trouble for him.

Pul king of Assyria came against the land. Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver to let him keep the kingdom.

So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria), who took the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. He took them to Halah, Habor, Hara and the river of Gozan, where they are to this day.

If Jehovah of Hosts had not left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.