Parallel Verses

World English Bible

Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, "Yahweh 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."

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.

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.

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 princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, 'You have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.'" 6 Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, "Yahweh is righteous." 7 When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh 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 on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

Cross References

Exodus 9:27

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

Daniel 9:14

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

Exodus 10:3

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Leviticus 26:40-41

"'If they 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

Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

1 Kings 8:37-39

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

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 Yahweh didn't come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

2 Chronicles 33:12

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

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

2 Chronicles 33:23

He didn't humble himself before Yahweh, 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 didn't profit me.

Psalm 78:34-35

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

Psalm 129:4

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

Jeremiah 13:15

Hear, and give ear; don't be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses 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.

Lamentations 1:18

Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Daniel 5:22

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

Hosea 5:15

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."

Luke 18:14

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

Romans 10:3

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

James 4:6

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

James 4:10

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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