He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death – even death on a cross!

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.” ¹ 

“Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse ¹  before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son.” ² 

For you deliver oppressed ¹  people, but you bring down those who have a proud look. ² 

I will boast ¹  in the Lord; let the oppressed hear and rejoice! ² 

For the Lord takes delight in his people; he exalts the oppressed by delivering them. ¹ 

It is better to be lowly in spirit ¹  with the afflicted than to share the spoils ²  with the proud.

He bends down to look ¹  at the sky and the earth.

(and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and ¹  then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for ²  their iniquity,

fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you ¹  and eventually bring good to you.

So when Rehoboam ¹  humbled himself, the Lord relented from his anger and did not annihilate him; ²  Judah experienced some good things. ³ 

In his pain ¹  Manasseh ²  asked the Lord his God for mercy ³  and truly ⁴  humbled himself before the God of his ancestors. ⁵ 

He did evil in the sight of ¹  the Lord his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, the Lord’s spokesman.

“But you, his son ¹  Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, ²  although you knew all this.

Now the believer ¹  of humble means ²  should take pride ³  in his high position. ⁴ 

And God will exalt you in due time, ¹  if you humble yourselves under his mighty hand ² 

But then Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem humbled themselves and abandoned their pride, and the Lord was not angry with them for the rest of Hezekiah’s reign. ¹ 

Finally, all of you be harmonious, ¹  sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.

You deliver oppressed ¹  people, but you watch the proud and bring them down. ² 

if my people, who belong to me, ¹  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, ²  and repudiate their sinful practices, ³  then I will respond ⁴  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. ⁵