7 Do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who rebelled against the Lord God of their fathers and he gave them over to desolation, as ye see.
8 Therefore, do not be stiffnecked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
9 For if ye return unto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall find mercy before those that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land, for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you if ye return unto him.
10 So the posts passed from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.
11 Nevertheless, some men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, according to the word of the Lord.
13 And many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.