2 Chronicles 30:6 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.(A)
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Jeremiah 51:31 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
31 One runner runs to meet another,
and one messenger to meet another,
to tell the king of Babylon
that his city is taken from end to end:(A)
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Jeremiah 4:1 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 If you return, O Israel,
says the Lord,
if you return to me,
if you remove your abominations from my presence
and do not waver,(A)
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Esther 8:14 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 So the couriers, mounted on their royal steeds, hurried out, urged by the king’s command. The decree was issued in the citadel of Susa.
Read full chapter2 Kings 15:29 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
29 In the days of King Pekah of Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.(A)
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2 Kings 15:19 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
19 King Pul of Assyria came against the land; Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, so that he might help him confirm his hold on the royal power.(A)
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Isaiah 55:6-7 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;(A)
7 let the wicked forsake their way
and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.(B)
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Job 9:25 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
25 “My days are swifter than a runner;
they flee away; they see no good.
2 Chronicles 28:20 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 So King Tiglath-pileser[a] of Assyria came against him and oppressed him instead of strengthening him.(A)
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- 28.20 Heb Tilgath-pilneser
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1 Chronicles 5:26 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of King Pul of Assyria, the spirit of King Tiglath-pileser[a] of Assyria, and he carried them away, 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.(A)
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- 5.26 Heb Tilgath-pilneser
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James 4:8 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.(A)
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Joel 2:12-14 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 Yet even now, says the Lord,
return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;(A)
13 rend your hearts and not your clothing.
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love,
and relenting from punishment.(B)
14 Who knows whether he will not turn and relent
and leave a blessing behind him,
a grain offering and a drink offering
for the Lord your God?(C)
Hosea 14:1 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
A Plea for Repentance
14 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.(A)
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Ezekiel 33:11 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?(A)
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Lamentations 5:21 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored;
renew our days as of old—(A)
Isaiah 6:13 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 Even if a tenth part remain in it,
it will be burned again,
like a terebinth or an oak
whose stump remains standing
when it is felled.”[a]
(The holy seed is its stump.)(A)
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- 6.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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Isaiah 1:9 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 If the Lord of hosts
had not left us a few survivors,
we would have been like Sodom
and become like Gomorrah.(A)
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