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The Darby Translation

2 Chronicles 12:6

And the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah 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."
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."
Complete Jewish Bible
In response, the leaders of Isra'el and the king humbled themselves; they said, " Adonai is right."
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 And it came to pass when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and when he had become strong, [that] he forsook the law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him. 2 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, because they had transgressed against Jehovah, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, 3 with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen; and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt: Libyans, Sukkites, and Ethiopians. 4 And he took the fortified cities that belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. 5 And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and [to] the princes of Judah that had gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus saith Jehovah: Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. 6 And the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous. 7 And when Jehovah saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Jehovah came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will not destroy them, but I will grant them a little deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. 8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. 9 And Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house; he took away all; and he took away the shields of gold that Solomon had made. 10 And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the couriers who kept the entrance of the king's house.

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
—And Canaan begot Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,
Genesis 12:18
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
Genesis 12:19
Why didst thou say, She is my sister, so that I took her as my wife. And now, behold, there is thy wife: take [her], and go away.
Genesis 13:7
And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land.
Genesis 33:18
And Jacob came safely [to the] city Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-Aram; and he encamped before the city.
Genesis 34:2
And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.
Genesis 35:4
And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the terebinth that [is] by Shechem.
Deuteronomy 11:30
Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, beyond the way toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites that dwell on the plain opposite to Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
Joshua 20:7
And they hallowed Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kirjath-Arba, that is, Hebron, in the hill-country of Judah.
Joshua 24:32
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem in the portion of the field which Jacob had bought of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred kesitahs; and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

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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