This royal edict read: 6 “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return 7 to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. 8
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “and the Levites, according to their posts, to praise and to serve opposite the priests according to the matter of a day in its day.”
3 tn Heb “and the gatekeepers by their divisions for a gate and a gate.”
4 tn Heb “for so [was] the command of David the man of God.”
5 tn Heb “the runners.”
6 tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”
7 tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
8 tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”
9 tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I established for their fathers.”