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2 Chronicles 12

2 Chron. 12:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whereupon the princes
sar (Hebrew #8269)
a head person (of any rank or class)
KJV usage: captain (that had rule), chief (captain), general, governor, keeper, lord, ((-task- ))master, prince(-ipal), ruler, steward.
Pronounce: sar
Origin: from 8323
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
and the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
humbled
kana` (Hebrew #3665)
properly, to bend the knee; hence, to humiliate, vanquish
KJV usage: bring down (low), into subjection, under, humble (self), subdue.
Pronounce: kaw-nah'
Origin: a primitive root
g themselves; and they said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Theh Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
is righteous
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
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Jer. 13:15,18• 15Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for Jehovah hath spoken.
 18Say unto the king and unto the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. (Jer. 13:15,18)
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James 4:6,10• 6But he giveth more grace; wherefore he saith, God setteth himself against haughty [men], but giveth grace to lowly.
 10Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he will exalt you. (James 4:6,10)
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Ex. 9:27• 27{i}And 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.{/i} (Ex. 9:27)
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1 Kings 21:28‑29• 28{i}And the word of Jehovah came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,{/i}
 29{i}Seest 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.{/i} (1 Kings 21:28‑29)

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Israel,
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Prince; Princess,
Righteousness

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Ministry on This Verse

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humbled.
2 Chron. 32:26• 26{i}And 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.{/i} (2 Chron. 32:26)
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2 Chron. 33:12,19,23• 12{i}And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,{/i}
 19{i}And 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.{/i}
 23{i}And he did not humble himself before Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; for he, Amon, multiplied trespass{/i}, (2 Chron. 33:12,19,23)
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Ex. 10:3• 3{i}And 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.{/i} (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 unfaithfullness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary to me,
 41so [that] I also walked contrary to 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• 37{i}If 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:{/i}
 38{i}what 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;{/i}
 39{i}then 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),{/i} (1 Kings 8:37‑39)
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Psa. 78:34‑35• 34When he slew them, then they enquired after him,{HR}And turned and sought God (El) eagerly.
 35And they remembered that God [was] their rock,{HR}And God Most High their redeemer. (Psa. 78:34‑35)
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Jer. 13:15,18• 15Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for Jehovah hath spoken.
 18Say unto the king and unto the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. (Jer. 13:15,18)
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Jer. 44:10• 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. (Jer. 44:10)
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Dan. 5:22• 22And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; (Dan. 5:22)
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Hos. 5:15• 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. (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 everyone who exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. (Luke 18:14)
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James 4:6,10• 6But he giveth more grace; wherefore he saith, God setteth himself against haughty [men], but giveth grace to lowly.
 10Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he will exalt you. (James 4:6,10)
the Lord.
Ex. 9:27• 27{i}And 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.{/i} (Ex. 9:27)
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Judg. 1:7• 7{i}And 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.{/i} (Judg. 1:7)
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Job 33:27• 27He singeth before mortals, and saith,{HR}I sinned and perverted right, and it satisfied me not. (Job 33:27)
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Psa. 129:4• 4Jehovah [is] righteous;{HR}He hath cut asunder wicked [men's] cord. (Psa. 129:4)
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Lam. 1:18• 18Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment:{HR}Hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow:{HR}My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. (Lam. 1:18)
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Dan. 9:14• 14{i}And 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.{/i} (Dan. 9:14)
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Rom. 10:3• 3For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own [righteousness], they 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)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)