2 Chronicles 30:6-9

English Standard Version

^6 (A)So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, ^(B)return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of ^(C)the kings of Assyria. ^7 (D)Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see. ^8 (E)Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, ^(F)that his fierce anger may turn away from you. ⁹ For ^(G)if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children ^(H)will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For ^(I)the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, ^(J)if you return to him.”