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2 Chronicles 12:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
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Quick Meaning
Records princes and king humbling themselves and acknowledging justice.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 12:1–12:8
Records princes and king humbling themselves and acknowledging justice. Read 2 Chronicles 12:6 within 12:1–12:8. The complete unit records: After Rehoboam and Israel forsake the law, an Egyptian-led coalition captures fortified cities; Shemaiah announces judgment, leaders humble themselves, and complete destruction is withheld.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The first royal crisis tests the temple warning of chapter 7 and introduces humility as a recurring Chronicler theme. In this exact position, the line beginning “Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The…” records princes and king humbling themselves and acknowledging justice.
Follow the Context
- After Rehoboam and Israel forsake the law, an Egyptian-led coalition captures fortified cities; Shemaiah announces judgment, leaders humble themselves, and complete destruction is withheld.
- The first royal crisis tests the temple warning of chapter 7 and introduces humility as a recurring Chronicler theme.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The…”
In plain language: Records princes and king humbling themselves and acknowledging justice.
The line beginning “Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The…” records princes and king humbling themselves and acknowledging justice.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
Military defeat does not prove every victim personally guilty, and foreign armies must not be stereotyped as divine tools by ethnicity.
What Remains True
Records princes and king humbling themselves and acknowledging justice. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Faithful memory tells the truth about worship and power together: it preserves covenant hope while naming labor, victims, institutional limits, human agency, and uncertainty.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse records princes and king humbling themselves and acknowledging justice, keep it inside 12:1–12:8, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 2 Chronicles 12:6 records princes and king humbling themselves and acknowledging justice. Use 12:1–12:8, paraphrase “Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Chronicles 12:1–12:8 — Shishak's invasion answers abandonment of the lawSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
2 Chronicles 12:6 remains within this thought-unit limit: Chronicles supplies a theological sequence not found in the same form in Kings; Shoshenq's campaign evidence does not verify every speech, number, or motive.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 12:1–12:8, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 12:1–12:8
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 12:1–12:8, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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