Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "Yahweh [is] righteous."
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.
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.
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 Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem from before Shishak. And he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh: 'You yourselves have abandoned me, and I myself have surely abandoned you into the hand of Shishak.'" 6 Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "Yahweh [is] righteous." 7 And when Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy. I will give to them some way of escape, that my anger not be poured out against Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 9:27
And Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh [is] the righteous [one], and I and my people [are] the wicked [ones].
Daniel 9:14
So Yahweh [has] kept watch over the calamity, and [now] he [has] brought it upon us. Indeed, Yahweh our God [is] righteous concerning all his works that he has done, but we have not listened to his voice.
Exodus 10:3
And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, 'Until when will you refuse to submit before me? Release my people so that they may serve me.
Leviticus 26:40-41
" 'But when they confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors in their infidelity that they displayed against me, and moreover that they went against me in hostility--
Judges 1:7
Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with {their thumbs and big toes} cut off used to pick up [scraps] under my table; just as I have done, so God has repaid to me. And they brought him [to] Jerusalem, and he died there.
1 Kings 8:37-39
If there should be in the land famine or disease, if there should be blight or mildew or locust or caterpillars, if it happens that his enemy lays siege against him in the land of his gates, if any plague or any disease,
2 Chronicles 32:26
But Hezekiah humbled himself with respect to the arrogance of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 33:12
And when he was in distress he entreated Yahweh his God and greatly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors
2 Chronicles 33:19
And his prayer, and [how] he responded to him, all his sin and his unfaithful acts, and the places where he built the high places and set up Asherahs and idols before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the words of the seers.
2 Chronicles 33:23
And he did not humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father humbled himself, but Amon himself multiplied [his] guilt.
Job 33:27
"He will sing to men, and he will say, 'I have sinned and have perverted [what is] right, and it was not paid back to me.
Psalm 78:34-35
When he killed [some of] them, then they sought him, and repented and earnestly sought God.
Psalm 129:4
Yahweh [is] righteous. He has cut [the] ropes of [the] wicked.
Jeremiah 13:15
Listen, and pay attention, you must not be haughty, for Yahweh has spoken.
Jeremiah 13:18
"Say to the king and to the queen mother, '{Take a lower seat}, for {your beautiful crown} has come down from your head.'
Jeremiah 44:10
They have not shown contrition up to this day, and they have not shown reverence, and they have not walked in my law and in my statutes that I set {before you} and {before} your ancestors.'
Lamentations 1:18
Yahweh is righteous; I have rebelled [against] {his word}. Please hear, all [the] nations, And see my pain; My young women and young men went into captivity.
Daniel 5:22
"But you his {successor}, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart {even though} you knew all this.
Hosea 5:15
{I will return again} to my place until they acknowledge [their] guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will search me.
Luke 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that one! For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
Romans 10:3
For ignoring the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
James 4:6
But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
James 4:10
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.