What is the context?
The couriers meet ridicule in parts of the north, but some people from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humble themselves and come. The report remembers both resistance and response.
In Judah, God gives the people unity to carry out the command in accordance with His word. A large assembly gathers at Jerusalem in the second month.
They remove the altars and incense altars from the city and throw them into the Kidron Valley. Gathering for the feast includes a practical rejection of the worship arrangements that had displaced faithfulness to the Lord.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley stresses the humility of those who come despite the mockery. The narrative’s named exceptions matter: it does not depict every northerner as rejecting the invitation or every member of the southern kingdom as personally transformed.
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