2 Chronicles 12:6
Modern Translations
New International Version
The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is just."

New Living Translation
Then the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is right in doing this to us!”

English Standard Version
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”

Berean Study Bible
So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”

New American Standard Bible
So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”

NASB 1995
So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."

NASB 1977
So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”

Amplified Bible
Then the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”

Christian Standard Bible
So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "Yahweh is righteous."

Contemporary English Version
Rehoboam and the leaders were sorry for what they had done and admitted, "The LORD is right. We have deserted him."

Good News Translation
The king and the leaders admitted that they had sinned, and they said, "What the LORD is doing is just."

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then the commanders of Israel and the king humbled themselves. "The LORD is right!" they said.

International Standard Version
In response, the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and declared, "The LORD is righteous."

NET Bible
The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is just."
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.

New King James Version
So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “The LORD is righteous.”

King James 2000 Bible
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.

New Heart English Bible
Then the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, "The LORD is righteous."

World English Bible
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, "Yahweh is righteous."

American King James Version
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.

American Standard Version
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous.

A Faithful Version
And the rulers of Israel and the king humbled themselves. And they said, "The LORD is righteous."

Darby Bible Translation
And the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Jehovah is righteous.

English Revised Version
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.

Webster's Bible Translation
Upon which the princes of Israel, and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Then the princes of Israel, & the King humbled themselues, and sayde, The Lord is iust.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Whereupon the lordes of Israel and the king humbled themselues, and said: The Lorde is righteous.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The the rulers in Israel with the kynge submytted them selues, and sayde: The LORDE is righteous.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and the heads of Israel are humbled—and the king—and they say, “YHWH [is] righteous.”

Young's Literal Translation
and the heads of Israel are humbled, and the king, and they say, 'Righteous is Jehovah.'

Smith's Literal Translation
And the chiefs of Israel, and the king, will humble themselves; and they will say, Jehovah is just.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the princes of Israel, and the king, being in a consternation, said: The Lord is just.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And the leaders of Israel, and the king, being in consternation, said, “The Lord is just.”

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated


Lamsa Bible
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said: 'The LORD is righteous.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the elders of Israel and the king were ashamed, and said, The Lord is righteous.
















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