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

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Jer. 13:15,18• ¹⁵Hear ye, and give ear, be not lifted up; for Jehovah hath spoken.
¹⁸Say unto the king and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down low; for from your heads shall come down the crown of your magnificence. (Jer. 13:15,18)

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James 4:6,10• ⁶But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly.
¹⁰Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he shall exalt you. (James 4:6,10)

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Ex. 9:27• ²⁷And Pharaoh sent, and called Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time: Jehovah is the righteous one, but I and my people are the wicked ones. (Ex. 9:27)

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1 Kings 21:28‑29• ²⁸And the word of Jehovah came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
²⁹Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. (1 Kings 21:28‑29)

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2 Chron. 32:26• ²⁶And Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Jehovah came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah. (2 Chron. 32:26)

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2 Chron. 33:12,19,23• ¹²And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
¹⁹And his prayer, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places in which he built high places, and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the words of Hozai.
²³And he did not humble himself before Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; for he, Amon, multiplied trespass. (2 Chron. 33:12,19,23)

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Ex. 10:3• ³And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah the God of the Hebrews: How long dost thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me. (Ex. 10:3)

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Lev. 26:40‑41• ⁴⁰And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me,
⁴¹so that I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity, (Lev. 26:40‑41)

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1 Kings 8:37‑39• ³⁷If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight, mildew, locust, caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be:
³⁸what prayer, what supplication soever be made by any man, of all thy people Israel, when they shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house;
³⁹then hear thou in the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men), (1 Kings 8:37‑39)

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Psa. 78:34‑35• ³⁴When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after *God;
³⁵And they remembered that God was their rock, and *God, the Most High, their redeemer. (Psa. 78:34‑35)

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Jer. 13:15,18• ¹⁵Hear ye, and give ear, be not lifted up; for Jehovah hath spoken.
¹⁸Say unto the king and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down low; for from your heads shall come down the crown of your magnificence. (Jer. 13:15,18)

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Jer. 44:10• ¹⁰They are not humbled unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes which I set before you and before your fathers. (Jer. 44:10)

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Dan. 5:22• ²²And thou, Belshazzar, his son, hast not humbled thy heart, although thou knewest all this; (Dan. 5:22)

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Hos. 5:15• ¹⁵I will go away, I will return to my place, till they acknowledge their trespass, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. (Hos. 5:15)

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Luke 18:14• ¹⁴I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather than that other. For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted. (Luke 18:14)

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James 4:6,10• ⁶But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly.
¹⁰Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he shall exalt you. (James 4:6,10)

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Ex. 9:27• ²⁷And Pharaoh sent, and called Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time: Jehovah is the righteous one, but I and my people are the wicked ones. (Ex. 9:27)

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Judg. 1:7• ⁷And Adoni-Bezek said, Seventy kings, with their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gleaned under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died. (Judg. 1:7)

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Job 33:27• ²⁷He will sing before men, and say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it hath not been requited to me; (Job 33:27)

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Psa. 129:4• ⁴Jehovah is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. (Psa. 129:4)

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Lam. 1:18• ¹⁸Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow. My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. (Lam. 1:18)

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Dan. 9:14• ¹⁴And Jehovah hath watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he hath done; and we have not hearkened unto his voice. (Dan. 9:14)

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Rom. 10:3• ³For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. (Rom. 10:3)

• There was a real work of conscience in the heart of the king and his princes, for they "humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous," and this humbling of themselves preserved Judah from complete destruction. (“Rehoboam: 2 Chronicles 10-12” by H.L. Rossier)

• All this work of repentance, the fruit of grace, is lacking — and with just cause — in 1 Kings 14. We shall see this same thing constantly repeated in the course of this book. (“Rehoboam: 2 Chronicles 10-12” by H.L. Rossier)

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