8Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.
9For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.
10So the runners went from town to town through all the country of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun: but they were laughed at and made sport of.
11However, some of Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun put away their pride and came to Jerusalem.
12And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord.
13So a very great number of people came together at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month.
14And they got to work and took away all the altars in Jerusalem, and they put all the vessels for burning perfumes into the stream Kidron.
