Bible Strands
2 Chronicles 12:6
So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Rehoboam and the leaders of Israel respond to Shemaiah’s prophecy of Shishak’s invasion by submitting to divine judgment.
The words — The Hebrew verb וַ/יִּכָּנְע֥וּ (va/i.yi.ka.ne.'U) means humbled themselves, and צַדִּ֥יק (tza.Dik) declares the LORD righteous in executing that judgment.
The thread — The confession “The LORD is righteous” parallels Pharaoh’s admission in Exodus 9:27 and Daniel’s acknowledgment of divine justice in Daniel 9:14.
Why it lands — The text records a concrete submission to punishment before promising deliverance, requiring readers to acknowledge God’s justice as the condition for mercy.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The Lord is righteous.
Cross-references
- Exodus 9:27 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said. “The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
- Daniel 9:14 Therefore 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.
- Exodus 10:3 So 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.
- Judges 1:7 Then 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.
- 1 Kings 8:37 When 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,
- 2 Chronicles 32:26 Then 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.
- 2 Chronicles 33:12 And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 33:19 His 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.
- 2 Chronicles 33:23 but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
- Job 33:27 Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.