2 Krönikeboken 30:6

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Så begåvo sig då ilbuden åstad med breven från konungen och hans förnämsta män och drogo genom hela Israel och Juda, enligt konungens befallning, och sade: »I Israels barn, vänden om till HERREN, Abrahams, Isaks och Israels Gud, på det att han må vända om till den kvarleva av eder, som har räddats undan de assyriska konungarnas hand.

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  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the posts went: Ratzim, "runners," or couriers, of the same kind as the running footmen, who were formerly, before the establishment of posts, and still are in some places, trained, and kept on purpose to convey dispatches speedily by running. Job 9:25, Esther 8:14, Jeremiah 51:31

the king: Heb. the hand of the king

turn again: Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:7, Jeremiah 4:1, Lamentations 5:21, Ezekiel 33:11, Hosea 14:1, Joel 2:12-14, James 4:8

and he will: Isaiah 6:13

escaped: 2 Chronicles 28:20, 2 Kings 15:19, 2 Kings 15:29, 1 Chronicles 5:26, Isaiah 1:9

Reciprocal: Judges 6:35 - messengers 2 Kings 23:19 - the cities 2 Chronicles 30:10 - the posts Esther 3:13 - by posts Esther 8:10 - by posts Isaiah 28:1 - whose Jeremiah 3:7 - Turn thou Lamentations 3:40 - turn Zechariah 1:3 - Turn

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah,.... 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, 2 Kings 15:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The posts went - The bearers of the letters were probably the “runners” who formed a portion of the king’s body-guard (2 Kings 10:25 note).

The kings of Assyria - Pul, Tiglath-pileser, and Shalmaneser may all be referred to in this passage (compare the marginal reference and 2 Kings 17:3). The passage by no means implies that the fall of Samaria and final captivity of the Israelites had as yet taken place.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 30:6. So the posts went — רצים ratsim, the runners or couriers; persons who were usually employed to carry messages; men who were light of foot, and confidential.