2 Chronicles 12:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.””
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“So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The Lord is righteous.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and the heads of Israel are humbled, and the king, and they say, `Righteous <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Chronicles 12:6 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 9:27Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said. “The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
- Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
- Leviticus 26:40But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
- Leviticus 26:41and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,
- Judges 1:7Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
- 1 Kings 8:37When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
- 2 Chronicles 32:26Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.
- 2 Chronicles 33:12And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 33:19His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.
- 2 Chronicles 33:23but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
- Job 33:27Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
- Psalms 78:34When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
- Psalms 129:4The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.
- Jeremiah 13:15Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.
- Jeremiah 13:18Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”
- Jeremiah 44:10To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.
- Lamentations 1:18The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
- Daniel 5:22But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.
- Daniel 9:14Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
- Hosea 5:15Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
- Luke 18:14I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
- Romans 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
- James 4:6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- James 4:10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
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