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Complete Jewish Bible

2 Chronicles 12:6

In response, the leaders of Isra'el and the king humbled themselves; they said, " Adonai is right."

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."
Berean Standard Bible
So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD 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."
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

1 But in time, after Rechav‘am had consolidated his rulership and had become strong, he, and with him all Isra'el, abandoned the Torah of Adonai . 2 In the fifth year of King Rechav‘am, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Yerushalayim, because they had acted faithlessly toward Adonai . 3 He came out of Egypt with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen and a numberless army including Luvim, Suki'im and Ethiopians. 4 He captured the fortified cities of Y'hudah, then went to Yerushalayim. 5 Now Sh'ma‘yah the prophet came to Rechav‘am and the leaders of Y'hudah who had gathered in Yerushalayim because of Shishak and said to them, "Here is what Adonai says: ‘Because you have abandoned me, I have abandoned you to the hands of Shishak.'" 6 In response, the leaders of Isra'el and the king humbled themselves; they said, " Adonai is right." 7 When Adonai saw that they had humbled themselves, this word of Adonai came to Sh'ma‘yah: "Because they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them but will grant them a measure of deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Yerushalayim through Shishak. 8 However, they will become his slaves, so that they will come to appreciate the difference between serving me and serving earthly kingdoms." 9 So Shishak king of Egypt attacked Yerushalayim. He took the treasures in the house of Adonai and the treasures in the royal palace — he took everything, including the gold shields Shlomo had made. 10 To replace them, King Rechav‘am made shields of bronze, which he entrusted to the commanders of the contingent guarding the gate 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
Kena‘an fathered Tzidon his firstborn, Het,
Genesis 12:18
Pharaoh called Avram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
Genesis 12:19
Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my own wife? Now therefore, here is your wife! Take her, and go away!"
Genesis 13:7
Moreover, quarreling arose between Avram's and Lot's herdsmen. The Kena‘ani and the P'rizi were then living in the land.
Genesis 33:18
Having traveled from Paddan-Aram, Ya‘akov arrived safely at the city of Sh'khem, in Kena‘an, and set up camp near the city.
Genesis 34:2
and Sh'khem the son of Hamor the Hivi, the local ruler, saw her, grabbed her, raped her and humiliated her.
Genesis 35:4
They gave Ya‘akov all the foreign gods in their possession and the earrings they were wearing, and Ya‘akov buried them under the pistachio tree near Sh'khem.
Deuteronomy 11:30
Both are west of the Yarden, in the direction of the sunset, in the land of the Kena‘ani living in the ‘Aravah, across from Gilgal, near the pistachio trees of Moreh.
Joshua 20:7
So they set apart Kedesh in the Galil, in the hills of Naftali; Sh'khem in the hills of Efrayim; and Kiryat-Arba (that is, Hevron) in the hills of Y'hudah.
Joshua 24:32
The bones of Yosef, which the people of Isra'el had brought up from Egypt, they buried in Sh'khem, in the parcel of ground which Ya‘akov had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Sh'khem for a hundred pieces of silver; and they became a possession of the descendants of Yosef.

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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