Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Then the rulers of Israel and the king humbled themselves, and they said, LORD is righteous.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

In response, the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and declared, "The LORD is righteous."

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

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

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And the chiefs of Israel, and the king, will humble themselves; and they will say, Jehovah is just.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "Yahweh [is] righteous."

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Whereupon the lords of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."

NET Bible

The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The Lord is just."

New Heart English Bible

Then the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, "The LORD is righteous."

The Emphasized Bible

Then the rulers of Israel and the king humbled themselves, - and said, Righteous, is Yahweh!

Webster

Upon which 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, "Yahweh is righteous."

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
of Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

and the king
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

כּנע 
Kana` 
Usage: 36

References

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

Shishak Of Egypt Invades Jerusalem

5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the rulers of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus says LORD, Ye have forsaken me, therefore I have also left you in the hand of 6 Then the rulers of Israel and the king humbled themselves, and they said, LORD is righteous. 7 And when LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jer

Cross References

Exodus 9:27

And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time. LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Daniel 9:14

Therefore LORD has watched over the evil, and brought it upon us, for LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

Exodus 10:3

And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus says LORD, the God of the Hebrews, How long will thou refuse to humble thyself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Leviticus 26:40-41

And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

Judges 1:7

And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [scraps] under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

1 Kings 8:37-39

If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight, mildew, locust [or] caterpillar, if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there be,

2 Chronicles 32:26

Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of LORD did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

2 Chronicles 33:12

And when he was in distress, he besought LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 33:19

Also his prayer, and how [God] was entreated by him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written

2 Chronicles 33:23

And he did not humble himself before LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

Job 33:27

He sings before men, and says, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me.

Psalm 78:34-35

When he killed them, then they inquired after him, and they returned and sought God earnestly.

Psalm 129:4

LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

Jeremiah 13:15

Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud, for LORD has spoken.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say thou to the king and to the queen-mother: Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your coronets have come down, even the crown of your glory.

Jeremiah 44:10

They are not humbled even to this day. Neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

Daniel 5:22

And thou his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled thy heart, though thou knew all this,

Hosea 5:15

I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.

Luke 18:14

I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that man. Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.

Romans 10:3

For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

James 4:6

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly.

James 4:10

Be ye made lower in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

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