Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the anger of Adonai turned from him and He did not destroy him completely. Indeed there were good things in Judah.
2 Chronicles 12:6 - Tree of Life Version Then the officers of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “Adonai is just.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, The Lord is righteous. American Standard Version (1901) Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous. Common English Bible Then the leaders of Israel and the king submitted. “The LORD is right,” they said. Catholic Public Domain Version And the leaders of Israel, and the king, being in consternation, said, "The Lord is just." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the princes of Israel, and the king, being in a consternation, said: The Lord is just. |
Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the anger of Adonai turned from him and He did not destroy him completely. Indeed there were good things in Judah.
His brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat, were Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariahu, Michael and Shephatiah—all these were the sons of King Jehoshaphat of Israel.
Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride in his heart—both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of Adonai did not fall upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
In his distress, he entreated Adonai his God and greatly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
His prayer also, and how God was moved by his entreaty, all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherah poles and the carved images before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of Hozai.
He did not humble himself before Adonai as his father Manasseh had humbled himself. Instead Amon increased his guilt.
He sings to others, saying, ‘I have sinned and perverted what is right, but I did not get what I deserved.
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what Adonai, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long would you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so they may serve Me.
So Pharaoh sent, called for Moses and Aaron and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Adonai is righteous, while I and my people are wicked.
Say to the king and the queen mother: “Sit down low, for your glorious crown has fallen from your head.”
They have not become contrite even to this day, nor have they feared nor walked in My Torah, My statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.”
“Adonai is righteous, for I have rebelled against His word. Hear now, all peoples— look at my suffering! My maidens and my young men have gone into captivity.
“But you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.
So Adonai was intent on bringing the calamity upon us, for Adonai Eloheinu is righteous in all His deeds that He has done—while we have not paid attention to His voice.
I will go and return to My place until they admit their guilt. Then they will seek My face. In their distress they will seek Me earnestly:
I tell you, this man, rather than the other, went down to his home declared righteous. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God.
But He gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
So Adoni-bezek said, “70 kings, having their thumbs and big toes cut off, used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me.” They brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.