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2 Chronicles 12:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Then the commanders of Israel and the king humbled themselves saying, “The Lord is in the right.”

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Because he had humbled himself, the anger of the Lord turned from him so as not to destroy him completely; in Judah, moreover, there was some good.

He had brothers, Jehoshaphat’s sons: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were sons of King Jehoshaphat of Judah.

But then Hezekiah humbled himself for his pride—both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and therefore the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them during the time of Hezekiah.

In his distress, he began to appease the Lord, his God. He humbled himself abjectly before the God of his ancestors,

His prayer and how his supplication was heard, all his sins and his treachery, the sites where he built high places and set up asherahs and carved images before he humbled himself, all this is recorded in the chronicles of his seers.

Moreover, he did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh had humbled himself; on the contrary, Amon only increased his guilt.

He shall sing before all and say, “I sinned and did wrong, yet I was not punished accordingly.

But the just Lord cut me free from the ropes of the wicked.

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go to serve me.

Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said to them, “I have sinned this time! The Lord is the just one, and I and my people are the ones at fault.

Listen and give ear, do not be arrogant, for the Lord speaks.

Say to the king and to the queen mother: come down from your throne; From your heads your splendid crowns will fall.

To this day they have not been crushed down, nor have they shown fear. They have not followed my law and my statutes that I set before you and your ancestors.

“The Lord is in the right; I had defied his command. Listen, all you peoples, and see my pain: My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this;

so the Lord kept watch over the evil and brought it upon us. The Lord, our God, is just in all that he has done: we did not listen to his voice.

I will go back to my place until they make reparation and seek my presence. In their affliction, they shall look for me.

I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” Saying on Children and the Kingdom.

For, in their unawareness of the righteousness that comes from God and their attempt to establish their own [righteousness], they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

But he bestows a greater grace; therefore, it says: “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

“Seventy kings,” said Adonibezek, “used to pick up scraps under my table with their thumbs and big toes cut off. As I have done, so has God repaid me.” He was brought to Jerusalem, and he died there.




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