So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”
- KJV Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
- NKJV So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “The Lord is righteous.”
- NASB So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is righteous.”
- NLT Then the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is right in doing this to us!”
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Quick answer
The princes and the king humble themselves and confess, 'The LORD is righteous.' Repentance answers the prophetic rebuke.
Overview
Rather than hardening their hearts, Judah's leaders acknowledge God's justice in their suffering. Their confession that 'the LORD is righteous' marks genuine humbling before God. This turning illustrates the Chronicler's hope-filled message that repentance opens the way to mercy (cf. 2 Chronicles 7:14).
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- Exod 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.
- Dan 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.
- Dan 5:22But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.
- Judg 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.
- Jas 4:6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Jer 13:15Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.
- Rom 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
- 2 Chr 33:12And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
- 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.
- Jas 4:10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
- Lam 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.
- 2 Chr 33:23but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
- Exod 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.
- Jer 13:18Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”
- Jer 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.
- 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.”
- 2 Chr 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.
- Ps 129:4The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.
- Hos 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.”
- 2 Chr 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.
- 1 Kgs 8:37–39When 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,
- Ps 78:34–35When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
- Lev 26:40–41But 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—
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