2 Chronicles 12:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:47-48 : 47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all [things]; 48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all [things]: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
  • Isa 26:13 : 13 O LORD our God, [other] lords beside thee have had dominion over us: [but] by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
  • Jer 10:24 : 24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
  • Hos 8:10 : 10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
  • Judg 3:1 : 1 ¶ Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
  • Neh 9:36 : 36 Behold, we [are] servants this day, and [for] the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we [are] servants in it:

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