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2 Chronicles 12:6

2 Chronicles chapter 12 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The Lord is righteous.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous.

Context

v.5Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, Ye have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

v.6This passage

v.7And 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 some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Leviticus 26:40

    And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary unto me,

  • 2 Chronicles 33:12

    And when he was in distress, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

  • James 4:10

    Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.

  • Luke 18:14

    I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

  • Daniel 5:22

    And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this,

  • Judges 1:7

    And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.