John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 30:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, etc.] Both through the kingdoms of the ten tribes of Israel, and the kingdom of the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin: and according to the commandment of the king, saying; so they were ordered by the king to say, when they delivered the letters which by the king’s commandment they carried; or this was the purport of them, as follows, especially of those that were sent to the ten tribes: ye children of Israel, turn again unto the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel; from whom they had revolted, and from whose worship they had departed, by setting up and serving the calves at Dan and Bethel: and he will return to the remnant of you that are escaped out of the hand of the king of Assyria; Pul and Tiglathpileser, who had both invaded their land, and the latter had taken many of their cities, and carried the inhabitants captive, (<121519>2 Kings 15:19,29).

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