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2 Chronicles 12:6

Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
2 Chronicles 12:6 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”
  • BSB So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and 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).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Exod 9:27And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
  • Dan 9:14Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
  • Dan 5:22And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
  • Judg 1:7And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
  • Jas 4:6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
  • Jer 13:15Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
  • Rom 10:3For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
  • 2 Chr 33:12And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
  • Job 33:27He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
  • Jas 4:10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
  • Lam 1:18The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
  • 2 Chr 33:23And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
  • Exod 10:3And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
  • Jer 13:18Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
  • Jer 44:10They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
  • Luke 18:14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
  • 2 Chr 33:19His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
  • Ps 129:4The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
  • Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
  • 2 Chr 32:26Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
  • 1 Kgs 8:37–39If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
  • Ps 78:34–35When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
  • Lev 26:40–41If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

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Christ at the center

Temple, priesthood, and the repeated need for a faithful king who seeks the LORD all point past every imperfect reign to the King and Temple who finally and fully dwell with God's people.

How 2 Chronicles 12:6 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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