Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”
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Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”
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Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
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Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said: 'The LORD is righteous.'
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 12:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 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 Yahweh has 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.
- Judges 1:7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to 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; whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house, then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);
- 2 Chronicles 32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath 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 Asherah poles 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.
- Psalms 78:34-35 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly. They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
- Psalms 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 crowns 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 have 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.
- 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, I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain And therefore doth justly punish you for your sins.
And therefore doth justly punish you for your sins.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 12:6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the…
2Ch 12:6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD [is] righteous.
Ver. 6. Whereupon the princes of Israel.] That is, Of Judah, as 2Ch 12:1.
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And the king humbled themselves.] But feignedly and forcedly, {see 2Ch 12:14} as was that of Pharaoh and Ahab.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled…
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves,.... Both by words acknowledging their sins, and the justice of God, and by deeds, perhaps putting on sackcloth, as was usual on such occasions, and betaking themselves to fasting and prayer:
and they said, the Lord is righteous; in giving them up into the hand of their enemies, seeing they had forsaken him, and sinned against him.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. Whereupon the princes of Israel and the…
Verse 6. Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves] This is not mentioned in the parallel place, 1Kg 14:25-29: this was the sole reason why Jerusalem was not at this time totally destroyed, and the house of David entirely cut off; for they were totally incapable of defending themselves against this innumerable host.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ch 12:6. Whereupon the princes and the king humbled…
2Ch 12:6. Whereupon the princes and the king humbled themselves — They penitentially acknowledged their sin, and patiently accepted the punishment of it, saying, The Lord is righteous — We have none to blame but ourselves: let God be clear when he is judged. Thus it becomes us, when we are under the rebukes of divine providence, to justify God, and judge ourselves. “Even princes and kings,” says Henry, “must either bend or break; either be humbled or ruined.”
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain They said, The Lord is righteous - i. e.,…
They said, The Lord is righteous - i. e., they acknowledged the justice of the sentence which had gone forth against them 2Ch 12:5.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the princes of Israel--(compare Ch2 12:5, "the princes of…
the princes of Israel--(compare Ch2 12:5, "the princes of Judah").
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. Whereupon] R.V. Then.
6. Whereupon] R.V. Then.
princes of Israel] Called “princes of Judah” in 2Ch_12:5; cp. note on 2Ch_11:3.
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humbled themselves] i.e. they fasted and put on sackcloth; cp. 1Ki_21:27; 1Ki_21:29.
The Lord is righteous] Cp. Pharaoh’s confession (Exo_9:27), and the Psalmist’s address to God, “That thou mayest be justified (lit. “mayest be righteous”) when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest” (Psa_51:4). The “righteousness” of God is made known to man in His judgment whether the judgment be of condemnation (as here) or of acquittal (as 1Jn_1:9, R.V.).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) Whereupon.—And.
(6) Whereupon.—And.
The princes of Israel.—See Note on 2Ch_12:1. “princes of Judah “. (2Ch_12:5) is the meaning.
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Humbled themselves.—Literally, bowed (2Ch_7:14). (Comp. Jon_3:5-6.)
The Lord is righteous.—Comp. Exo_9:27 (the exclamation of Pharaoh); and Ezr_9:15.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Note, as very apt parallel passages, (Jer_13:15, Jer_13:18; Exo_9:27.
Note, as very apt parallel passages, (Jer_13:15, Jer_13:18; Exo_9:27.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 12:6-7 Shemaiah’s speech expresses the elements required in Solomon’s…
12:6-7 Shemaiah’s speech expresses the elements required in Solomon’s prayer at the dedication of the Temple (7:14). The leaders of Israel . . . humbled themselves, and the wrath of judgment was removed from Jerusalem.
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