2 Chronicles 12:6

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Summary

2 Chronicles 12:6

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

Humbled

The lord

Romans 10:3

Bible References

Humbled

However, Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

When he was in distress, he entreated the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me—

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,

When He killed them, then they sought Him,
And returned and searched diligently for God;

Listen and give heed, do not be haughty,
For the Lord has spoken.

But they have not become contrite even to this day, nor have they feared nor walked in My law or My statutes, which I have set before you and before your fathers.”’

Yet you, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this,

I will go away and return to My place
Until they

acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;

In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.

I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

The lord

Then Pharaoh

sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time; the Lord is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones.

Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to gather up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has repaid me.” So they brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.

“He will sing to men and say,
‘I have sinned and perverted what is right,
And it is not proper for me.

The Lord

is righteous;

He has cut in two the cords of the wicked.

“The Lord is righteous;
For I have rebelled against His command;
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my pain;

My virgins and my young men

Have gone into captivity.

Therefore the Lord has

kept the calamity in store and brought it on us; for the Lord our God is righteous with respect to all His deeds which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.

For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.