2 Chronicles 12:6 “So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “Th…”

2 Chronicles 12:6

So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.

World English Bible

Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “The LORD is righteous.”

American Standard Version

Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then the princes of Israel, and the King humbled themselues, and sayde, The Lord is iust.

Darby Translation

And the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous.

Young's Literal Translation

and the heads of Israel are humbled, and the king, and they say, 'Righteous [is] Jehovah.'

Bible in Basic English

Then the chiefs of Israel and the king made themselves low and said, The Lord is upright.

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Cross references

“humbled”

2 Chronicles 32:26 2 Chronicles 33:12 2 Chronicles 33:19 2 Chronicles 33:23 Exodus 10:3 1 Kings 8:37–39

2 Chronicles 32:26 · BSB

Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.

2 Chronicles 33:12 · BSB

And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 33:19 · BSB

His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the R…

2 Chronicles 33:23 · BSB

but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.

Exodus 10:3 · BSB

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

1 Kings 8:37–39 · BSB

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

“the Lord”

Exodus 9:27 Daniel 9:14 Judges 1:7 Job 33:27 Psalm 129:4 Lamentations 1:18

Exodus 9:27 · BSB

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said. “The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Daniel 9:14 · BSB

Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.

Judges 1:7 · BSB

Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

Job 33:27 · BSB

Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

Psalm 129:4 · BSB

The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.

Lamentations 1:18 · BSB

The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have forsaken Me; therefore, I have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.’”

7When the LORD saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but will soon grant them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.

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