2 Tawarikh 30:6-8

30:6 Messengers ¹  delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.

This royal edict read: ²  “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return ³  to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. ⁴  30:7 Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors, ⁵  provoking him to destroy them, ⁶  as you can see. 30:8 Now, don’t be stubborn ⁷  like your fathers! Submit ⁸  to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the Lord your God so that he might relent from his raging anger. ⁹ 

[30:6]  ¹ tn Heb “the runners.”

[30:6]  ² tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”

[30:6]  ³ tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[30:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”

[30:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 19, 22).

[30:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he made them a devastation” (or, perhaps, “an object of horror”).

[30:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “don’t stiffen your neck” (a Hebrew idiom for being stubborn).

[30:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “give a hand.” On the meaning of the idiom here, see HALOT 387 s.v. I יָד 2.

[30:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from you.” The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.