Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Then the chiefs of Israel and the king made themselves low and said, The Lord is upright.
New American Standard Bible
So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The
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."
A Conservative Version
Then the rulers of Israel and the king humbled themselves, and they said, 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.”
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.'
Themes
Egyptians » Invade the land of israel » Under shishak
Humble » Penitence, examples of » Rehoboam and the princes
Humility » Temporal judgments averted by
Humility » Penitential » Rehoboam and the princes
Judgments » Should lead to » Humiliation
Kings » Who reigned over judah » Rehoboam (latter part of his reign)
Rehoboam » Invaded by the king of egypt and plundered
Repentance » Instances of » Rehoboam, when his kingdom was invaded, and jerusalem was besieged
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Chronicles 12:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Shishak Of Egypt Invades Jerusalem
5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the chiefs of Judah, who had come together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, The Lord has said, Because you have given me up, I have given you up into the hands of Shishak. 6 Then the chiefs of Israel and the king made themselves low and said, The Lord is upright. 7 And the Lord, seeing that they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give them salvation, and will not let loose my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 9:27
Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have done evil this time: the Lord is upright, and I and my people are sinners.
Daniel 9:14
So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.
Exodus 10:3
Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.
Leviticus 26:40-41
And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;
Judges 1:7
And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.
1 Kings 8:37-39
If there is no food in the land, or if there is disease, or if the fruits of the earth are damaged through heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers; whatever trouble, whatever disease there may be:
2 Chronicles 32:26
But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.
2 Chronicles 33:12
And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,
2 Chronicles 33:19
And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.
2 Chronicles 33:23
He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.
Job 33:27
He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.
Psalm 78:34-35
When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;
Jeremiah 13:15
Give ear and let your ears be open; be not lifted up: for these are the words of the Lord.
Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.
Jeremiah 44:10
Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.
Lamentations 1:18
The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.
Daniel 5:22
And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this;
Hosea 5:15
I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.
Luke 18:14
I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.
Romans 10:3
Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
James 4:6
But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.
James 4:10
Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.