2Ch 30:9, Ezr 7:6, 27-28, Neh 1:11, 2:4-8, Psa 106:46, Pro 16:7 | ESV | STEP | For if you return to the Lord , your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land . For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.

a[See ver. 6 above]

j[See ver. 6 above]

k[ch. 2:1]

l ver. 20; ch. 1:4, 5; Ezra 5:12; Dan. 2:18

m[Ps. 45:9]

n[ch. 5:14; 13:6]

o Ezra 8:36

p ch. 7:2

q ver. 18; See Ezra 7:6

r 1 Kgs. 8:50; 2 Chr. 30:9; Ezra 9:9; Neh. 1:11; Jer. 42:12

s[Gen. 26:28; 2 Chr. 17:10]

2 Chronicles 30:9

9 For ^aif you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children ^bwill find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For ^cthe Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, ^dif you return to him.”

Ezra 7:6

6 this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe ^eskilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, ^ffor the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

Ezra 7:27-28

27 ^gBlessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, ^hwho put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem, 28 ⁱand who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.

Nehemiah 1:11

11 O Lord, ^jlet your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”

Now I was ^kcupbearer to the king.

Nehemiah 2:4-8

4 Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So I prayed ^lto the God of heaven. 5 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, that I may rebuild it.” 6 And the king said to me ( ^mthe queen sitting beside him), “How long will you be gone, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me ⁿwhen I had given him a time. 7 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me ^oto the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah, 8 and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of ^pthe fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, ^qfor the good hand of my God was upon me.

Psalms 106:46

46 He caused them to be ^rpitied
by all those who held them captive.

Proverbs 16:7

7 When a man’s ways please the Lord,
^she makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.