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2 Chronicles 12:6

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The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is just.”

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Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord’s anger turned from him, and he was not totally destroyed. Indeed, there was some good in Judah.

Jehoram’s brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat, were Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariahu, Michael and Shephatiah. All these were sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.

Then Hezekiah repented of the pride of his heart, as did the people of Jerusalem; therefore the Lord’s wrath did not come on them during the days of Hezekiah.

In his distress he sought the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.

His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself—all these are written in the records of the seers.

But unlike his father Manasseh, he did not humble himself before the Lord; Amon increased his guilt.

And they will go to others and say, ‘I have sinned, I have perverted what is right, but I did not get what I deserved.

But the Lord is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.”

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to 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.

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said to them. “The Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.

Hear and pay attention, do not be arrogant, for the Lord has spoken.

Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Come down from your thrones, for your glorious crowns will fall from your heads.”

To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed my law and the decrees I set before you and your ancestors.

“The Lord is righteous, yet I rebelled against his command. Listen, all you peoples; look on my suffering. My young men and young women have gone into exile.

“But you, Belshazzar, his son, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this.

The Lord did not hesitate to bring the disaster on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in everything he does; yet we have not obeyed him.

Then I will return to my lair until they have borne their guilt and seek my face— in their misery they will earnestly seek me.”

“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”

Then Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.




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