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2 Chronicles 12:6

So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Egyptians;   Rehoboam;   Repentance;   Shishak;   War;   Thompson Chain Reference - Humble;   Humility;   Humility-Pride;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Humility;   Judgments;   Sins, National;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Shemaiah;   Shishak;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Humility;   Rehoboam;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - No;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Libya;   Righteousness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Rehoboam,;   Shemaiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Israel ;   Rehoboam ;   Shemaiah ;   Shishak ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Judah the kingdom of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Shi'shak,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronicles, Books of;   Shemaiah;   Shishak;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is righteous.”
Hebrew Names Version
Then the princes of Yisra'el and the king humbled themselves; and they 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.
English Standard Version
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The Lord is righteous."
New Century Version
Then the leaders of Judah and King Rehoboam were sorry for what they had done. They said, "The Lord does what is right."
New English Translation
The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The Lord is just."
Amplified Bible
Then the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."
New American Standard Bible
So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."
World English Bible
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Yahweh is righteous.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the princes of Israel, & the King humbled themselues, and sayde, The Lord is iust.
Legacy Standard Bible
So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "Yahweh is righteous."
Contemporary English Version
Rehoboam and the leaders were sorry for what they had done and admitted, "The Lord is right. We have deserted him."
Complete Jewish Bible
In response, the leaders of Isra'el and the king humbled themselves; they said, " Adonai is right."
Darby Translation
And the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the leaders of Judah and King Rehoboam were sorry and humbled themselves. They said, "The Lord is right."
George Lamsa Translation
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
Good News Translation
The king and the leaders admitted that they had sinned, and they said, "What the Lord is doing is just."
Lexham English Bible
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "Yahweh is righteous."
Literal Translation
And the leaders of Israel and the king were humbled. And they said, Jehovah is righteous.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The the rulers in Israel with the kynge submytted them selues, and sayde: The LORDE is righteous.
American Standard Version
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous.
Bible in Basic English
Then the chiefs of Israel and the king made themselves low and said, The Lord is upright.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whereupon the lordes of Israel and the king humbled themselues, and said: The Lorde is righteous.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said: 'The LORD is righteous.'
King James Version (1611)
Whereupon, the Princes of Israel, and the king humbled themselues and they saide, The Lord is righteous.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the elders of Israel and the king were ashamed, and said, The Lord is righteous.
English Revised Version
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the princes of Israel and the kyng weren astonyed, and seiden, The Lord is iust.
Update Bible Version
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Yahweh is righteous.
Webster's Bible Translation
Upon which the princes of Israel, and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD [is] righteous.
New King James Version
So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, "The LORD is righteous."
New Living Translation
Then the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The Lord is right in doing this to us!"
New Life Bible
So the princes of Israel and the king put away their pride and said, "The Lord is right and good."
New Revised Standard
Then the officers of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The Lord is in the right."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then the rulers of Israel and the king humbled themselves, - and said, Righteous, is Yahweh!
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the princes of Israel, and the king, being in a consternation, said: The Lord is just.
Revised Standard Version
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."
Young's Literal Translation
and the heads of Israel are humbled, and the king, and they say, `Righteous [is] Jehovah.'
THE MESSAGE
The leaders of Israel and the king were repentant and said, " God is right."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."

Contextual Overview

1After Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he and all Israel with him forsook the law of the LORD. 2In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem 3with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt-Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites. 4He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem. 5Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, "This is what the LORD says: 'You have forsaken Me; therefore, I have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.'" 6So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."7When the LORD saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but will soon grant them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak. 8Nevertheless, they will become his servants, so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of other lands." 9So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made. 10Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

humbled: 2 Chronicles 32:26, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:19, 2 Chronicles 33:23, Exodus 10:3, Leviticus 26:40, Leviticus 26:41, 1 Kings 8:37-39, Psalms 78:34, Psalms 78:35, Jeremiah 13:15, Jeremiah 13:18, Jeremiah 44:10, Daniel 5:22, Hosea 5:15, Luke 18:14, James 4:6, James 4:10

the Lord: Exodus 9:27, Judges 1:7, Job 33:27, Psalms 129:4, Lamentations 1:18, Daniel 9:14, Romans 10:3

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 12:12 - when 2 Chronicles 21:2 - Israel 2 Chronicles 30:11 - humbled themselves Jeremiah 18:8 - that nation 1 Peter 5:6 - Humble

Cross-References

Genesis 10:15
Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
Genesis 12:18
So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, "What have you done to me? Why did you not tell me she was your wife?
Genesis 12:19
Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!"
Genesis 13:7
And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.
Genesis 33:18
After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.
Genesis 34:2
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
Genesis 35:4
So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
Deuteronomy 11:30
Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal, near the Oak of Moreh?
Joshua 20:7
So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
Joshua 24:32
Also, the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph's descendants.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They said, The Lord is righteous - i. e., they acknowledged the justice of the sentence which had gone forth against them 2 Chronicles 12:5.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 12:6. Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves — This is not mentioned in the parallel place, 1 Kings 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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