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2 Chronicles 12:6

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Then the commanders of Israel and the king humbled themselves. “The Lord is right!” they said.

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After Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord was no longer angry with him and didn’t completely destroy him. So things went well in Judah.

He had the following brothers, sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariahu, Michael, and Shephatiah. All were the sons of King Jehoshaphat of Israel.

Hezekiah and the people living in Jerusalem humbled themselves when they realized they had become conceited. So the Lord didn’t vent his anger on them during Hezekiah’s time.

When he experienced this distress, he begged the Lord his God to be kind and humbled himself in front of the God of his ancestors.

His prayer and how God accepted it are written in the records of Hozai. The things he did before he humbled himself are also written there. This includes all his sins and unfaithfulness and the places where he built illegal worship sites and set up idols and poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah.

He didn’t humble himself in front of the Lord as his father Manasseh had humbled himself. Instead, Amon continued to sin.

Each one sings in front of other people and says, ‘I sinned and did wrong instead of what was right, and it did me no good.

The Lord is righteous. He has cut me loose from the ropes that wicked people tied around me.

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the Lord God of the Hebrews says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself in my presence? Let my people go to worship me.

Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he told them. “The Lord is right, and my people and I are wrong.

Listen, and pay attention! Don’t be arrogant. The Lord has spoken.

Say to the king and his mother, “Come down from your thrones, because your crowns have fallen off your heads.”

You have not humbled yourselves even to this day. You haven’t feared me or lived your lives by my teachings or by my decrees that I gave your ancestors.

“The Lord is right in what he did, because I rebelled against his word. Please listen, all you people, and look at my pain. My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

“Belshazzar, you are one of Nebuchadnezzar’s successors. You didn’t remain humble, even though you knew all this.

So you were prepared to bring this disaster on us. Lord our God, you are righteous in everything you do. But we never listened to you.

I will go back to my place until they admit that they are guilty. Then they will search for me. In their distress they will eagerly look for me.”

“I can guarantee that this tax collector went home with God’s approval, but the Pharisee didn’t. Everyone who honors himself will be humbled, but the person who humbles himself will be honored.”

They don’t understand ⌞how to receive⌟ God’s approval. So they try to set up their own way to get it, and they have not accepted God’s way for receiving his approval.

Humble yourselves in the Lord’s presence. Then he will give you a high position.

But God shows us even more kindness. Scripture says, “God opposes arrogant people, but he is kind to humble people.”

Adoni Bezek said, “Seventy kings who had their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up food under my table. God has paid me back for what I did to them.” Judah’s troops brought Adoni Bezek to Jerusalem, where he died.




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