He asked them, “What message do you advise we send back to these people who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”

‘This is what the Lord says: You are not to march up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this incident has come from Me.’”

So they listened to what the Lord said and turned back from going against Jeroboam.

Whenever the king entered the Lord’s temple, the royal escorts would carry the shields and take them back to the royal escorts’ armory.

and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this guy in prison and feed him only bread and water until I come back safely.’”

When the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beer-sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.

Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem turned back with Jehoshaphat their leader, returning joyfully to Jerusalem, for the Lord enabled them to rejoice over their enemies.

Nevertheless, He sent them prophets to bring them back to the Lord; they admonished them, but the people would not listen.

As for the men of the division that Amaziah sent back so they would not go with him into battle, they raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon, struck down 3,000 of their people, and took a great deal of plunder.

They carried him back on horses and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.

He prayed to Him, so He heard his petition and granted his request, and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. So Manasseh came to know that Yahweh is God.