Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
and the heads of Israel are humbled, and the king, and they say, 'Righteous is Jehovah.'
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.
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."
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 hath come in unto Rehoboam and the heads of Judah who have been gathered unto Jerusalem from the presence of Shishak, and saith to them, 'Thus said Jehovah, Ye have forsaken Me, and also, I have left you in the hand of Shishak;' 6 and the heads of Israel are humbled, and the king, and they say, 'Righteous is Jehovah.' 7 And when Jehovah seeth that they have been humbled, a word of Jehovah hath been unto Shemaiah, saying, 'They have been humbled; I do not destroy them, and I have given to them as a little thing for an escape, and I pour not out My fury in Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak;
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 9:27
And Pharaoh sendeth, and calleth for Moses and for Aaron, and saith unto them, 'I have sinned this time, Jehovah is the Righteous, and I and my people are the Wicked,
Daniel 9:14
And Jehovah doth watch for the evil, and bringeth it upon us, for righteous is Jehovah our God concerning all His works that He hath done, and we have not hearkened to His voice.
Exodus 10:3
And Moses cometh in -- Aaron also -- unto Pharaoh, and they say unto him, 'Thus said Jehovah, God of the Hebrews, Until when hast thou refused to be humbled at My presence? send My people away, and they serve Me,
Leviticus 26:40-41
And -- they have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition,
Judges 1:7
and Adoni-Bezek saith, 'Seventy kings -- their thumbs and their great toes cut off -- have been gathering under my table; as I have done so hath God repaid to me;' and they bring him in to Jerusalem, and he dieth there.
1 Kings 8:37-39
Famine -- when it is in the land; pestilence -- when it is; blasting, mildew, locust; caterpillar -- when it is; when its enemy hath distressed it in the land in its gates, any plague, any sickness, --
2 Chronicles 32:26
and Hezekiah is humbled for the loftiness of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the wrath of Jehovah hath not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 33:12
And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers,
2 Chronicles 33:19
and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which he had built high places, and established the shrines and the graven images before his being humbled, lo, they are written beside the matters of Hozai.
2 Chronicles 33:23
and hath not been humbled before Jehovah, like the humbling of Manasseh his father, for Amon himself hath multiplied guilt.
Job 33:27
He looketh on men, and saith, 'I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.
Psalm 78:34-35
If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly,
Psalm 129:4
Jehovah is righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked.
Jeremiah 13:15
Hear, and give ear -- be not haughty, For Jehovah hath spoken.
Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low -- sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.
Jeremiah 44:10
They have not been humbled unto this day, nor have they been afraid, nor have they walked in My law, and in My statutes, that I have set before you and before your fathers.
Lamentations 1:18
Righteous is Jehovah, For His mouth I have provoked. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and see my pain, My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
Daniel 5:22
'And thou, his son, Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though all this thou hast known;
Hosea 5:15
I go -- I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!'
Luke 18:14
I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
Romans 10:3
for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.
James 4:6
and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'
James 4:10
be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.