Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And the chiefs of Israel, and the king, will humble themselves; and they will say, Jehovah is just.
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.”
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.
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 And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and the chiefs of Judah who were gathered together to Jerusalem from the face of Shishak, and he will say to them, Thus said Jehovah, Ye forsook me, and I also left you in the hand of Shishak. 6 And the chiefs of Israel, and the king, will humble themselves; and they will say, Jehovah is just. 7 And in Jehovah's seeing that they humbled themselves, the word of Jehovah was to Shemaiah, saying, They humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, and I gave to them as a little for deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 9:27
And Pharaoh will send and call for Moses and for Aaron, and will say to them, I sinned this time: Jehovah is just, and I and my people unjust
Daniel 9:14
And Jehovah will watch for evil, and will bring it upon us: for Jehovah our God is just upon all his works which he did: and we heard not to his voice.
Exodus 10:3
And Moses will come, and Aaron, to Pharaoh, and they will say to him, Thus said Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Until long didst thou refuse to humble thyself from before me. Send forth my people and they shall serve me.
Leviticus 26:40-41
And they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, and the transgression which they dealt treacherously against me, and also that they went hostile with me;
Judges 1:7
And lord Bezek will say, Seventy kings with the thumbs of their hands and their feet being cut off, were gathering under my table; as I did so God requited me. And they will bring him to Jerusalem, and he will die there.
1 Kings 8:37-39
If famine shall be in the land, if there shall be death, blasting, yellowness, the locust devouring; if his enemy shall press upon him in the land of his gates, every blow, every sickness;
2 Chronicles 32:26
And Hezekiah will humble himself for the lifting up of his heart, he and those inhabiting Jerusalem, and the wrath of Jehovah came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 33:12
And when straits were to him he besought the face of Jehovah his God, and he will humble himself greatly from before the God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 33:19
And his prayer, and he was entreated for him and all his sin, and his transgression, and the places where he built in them heights, and he set up statues and carved images before his humbling: behold them written upon the words of the seers.
2 Chronicles 33:23
And he was not humbled from before Jehovah as Manasseh his father humbled himself; for this Amon multiplied trespass.
Job 33:27
He will look upon men, and he shall say, I sinned, and I perverted the right, and it was not fitting to me;
Psalm 78:34-35
When he slew them and they sought him, and they turned back and sought for God.
Psalm 129:4
Jehovah the just cut the entanglings of the unjust
Jeremiah 13:15
Hear ye, and give ear; ye shall not be proud: for Jehovah spake.
Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king and to the mistress, Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory was brought down from your heads.
Jeremiah 44:10
And they were not humbled even to this day, and they feared not and they went not in my instructions and in my laws which I gave before you and before your fathers.
Lamentations 1:18
Jehovah he is just: for I embittered his mouth: hear now, all ye peoples, and see my pain: my virgins and my chosen ones went into captivity.
Daniel 5:22
And thou his son, O Belshazzar, didst not humble thy heart because that thou knewest all this;
Hosea 5:15
I will go and turn back to my place, even till when they shall be guilty, and they sought my face: in straitness to them they will turn to me.
Luke 18:14
I say to you, this one went down to his house justified rather than that one: for every one lifting up himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be lifted up.
Romans 10:3
For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God.
James 4:6
And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
James 4:10
Be ye humbled before the Lord, and he will lift you up.