2 Chronicles 33:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

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  • 2 Chr 32:26 : 26 But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.
  • 2 Chr 33:18-19 : 18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel. 19 And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.
  • 2 Chr 33:23 : 23 He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.
  • Ps 50:15 : 15 Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.
  • Jer 31:18-20 : 18 Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God. 19 Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.
  • Hos 5:15 : 15 I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.
  • Mic 6:9 : 9 The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.
  • Luke 15:16-18 : 16 And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything. 17 But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food! 18 I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:
  • Luke 18:14-15 : 14 I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high. 15 And they took their children to him, so that he might put his hands on them: but when the disciples saw it, they said sharp words to them
  • Acts 9:11 : 11 And the Lord said to him, Get up, and go to the street which is named Straight, and make search at the house of Judas for one named Saul of Tarsus: for he is at prayer;
  • Jas 4:10 : 10 Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
  • 1 Pet 5:5-6 : 5 And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low. 6 For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.
  • Lev 26:39-42 : 39 And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away. 40 And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me; 41 So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins, 42 Then I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will keep in mind the land.
  • Deut 4:30-31 : 30 When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice: 31 Because the Lord your God is a God of mercy, he will not take away his help from you or let destruction overtake you, or be false to the agreement which he made by an oath with your fathers.
  • 2 Chr 28:5 : 5 So the Lord his God gave him up into the hands of the king of Aram; and they overcame him, and took away a great number of his people as prisoners to Damascus. Then he was given into the hands of the king of Israel, who sent great destruction on him.
  • 2 Chr 28:22 : 22 And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.

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