So the princes 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.
- 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.”
- 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 9:27Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
- Dan 9:14Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
- Dan 5:22You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
- Judg 1:7Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
- Jas 4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Jer 13:15Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.
- Rom 10:3For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
- 2 Chr 33:12When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
- Job 33:27He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
- Jas 4:10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
- Lam 1:18“Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
- 2 Chr 33:23He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
- Exod 10:3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
- Jer 13:18Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses have come down, even the crown of your glory.
- Jer 44:10They are not humbled even to 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 everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
- 2 Chr 33:19His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
- Ps 129:4Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
- Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
- 2 Chr 32:26Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
- 1 Kgs 8:37–39“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
- Ps 78:34–35When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
- Lev 26:40–41“‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,
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