King James Version (KJV)
2 Chronicles 12:6
“Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD [is] righteous.”
Verse in context — 2 Chronicles 12
And he took the fenced cities which [pertained] to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to] the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD [is] righteous.
And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; [therefore] I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
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Solomon’s reign and Judah’s history until the Babylonian exile.
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