9. For if you turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them 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 you return unto him.
10. So the runners passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
11. Nevertheless some from Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
12. Also the hand of God was upon Judah to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.