2 Chronicles 12:8

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Yet they will become his subjects, so they can experience how serving me differs from serving the surrounding nations.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:47-48 : 47 The Curse of Military Siege“Because you have not served the LORD your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have, 48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.
  • Isa 26:13 : 13 O LORD, our God, masters other than you have ruled us, but we praise your name alone.
  • Jer 10:24 : 24 Correct us, LORD, but only in due measure. Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.
  • Hos 8:10 : 10 Even though they have hired lovers among the nations, I will soon gather them together for judgment. Then they will begin to waste away under the oppression of a mighty king.
  • Judg 3:1 : 1 These were the nations the LORD permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel– he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites.
  • Neh 9:36 : 36 “So today we are slaves! In the very land you gave to our ancestors to eat its fruit and to enjoy its good things– we are slaves!

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  • 2 Chr 12:5-7
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    79%

    5Shemaiah the prophet visited Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem because of Shishak. He said to them,“This is what the LORD says:‘You have rejected me, so I have rejected you and will hand you over to Shishak.’”

    6The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said,“The LORD is just.”

    7When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the LORD’s message came to Shemaiah:“They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them. I will deliver them soon. My anger will not be unleashed against Jerusalem through Shishak.

  • 1 Kgs 12:7
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    7They said to him,“Today if you will be a servant to these people and grant their request, speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants from this time forward.”

  • Isa 60:12
    73%

    12Indeed, nations or kingdoms that do not serve you will perish; such nations will definitely be destroyed.

  • 1 Sam 8:16-17
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    16He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use.

    17He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants.

  • Jer 25:14
    72%

    14For many nations and great kings will make slaves of the king of Babylon and his nation too. I will repay them for all they have done!’”

  • Jer 27:6-8
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    6I have at this time placed all these nations of yours under the power of my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I have even made all the wild animals subject to him.

    7All nations must serve him and his son and grandson until the time comes for his own nation to fall. Then many nations and great kings will in turn subjugate Babylon.

    8But suppose a nation or a kingdom will not be subject to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Suppose it will not submit to the yoke of servitude to him. I, the LORD, affirm that I will punish that nation. I will use the king of Babylon to punish it with war, starvation, and disease until I have destroyed it.

  • 2 Chr 8:8-9
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    72%

    8Their descendants remained in the land(the Israelites were unable to wipe them out). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews and they continue in that role to this very day.

    9Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews; the Israelites served as his soldiers, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces.

  • Jer 30:8-9
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    8When the time for them to be rescued comes,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will rescue you from foreign subjugation. I will deliver you from captivity. Foreigners will then no longer subjugate them.

    9But they will be subject to the LORD their God and to the Davidic ruler whom I will raise up as king over them.

  • 2 Chr 12:9
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    9King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the LORD’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.

  • 1 Kgs 10:8
    71%

    8Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy!

  • 1 Sam 8:8-9
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    8Just as they have done from the day that I brought them up from Egypt until this very day, they have rejected me and have served other gods. This is what they are also doing to you.

    9So now do as they say. But you must warn them and make them aware of the policies of the king who will rule over them.”

  • 2 Chr 10:7
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    7They said to him,“If you are fair to these people, grant their request, and are cordial to them, they will be your servants from this time forward.”

  • Jer 28:14
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    14For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,“I have put an irresistible yoke of servitude on all these nations so they will serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. And they will indeed serve him. I have even given him control over the wild animals.”’”

  • 1 Kgs 14:8
    70%

    8I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve.

  • 1 Kgs 9:21-22
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    21Their descendants remained in the land(the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day.

    22Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews; the Israelites served as his soldiers, attendants, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces.

  • Jer 27:11
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    11Things will go better for the nation that submits to the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon and is subject to him. I will leave that nation in its native land. Its people can continue to farm it and live in it. I, the LORD, affirm it!”’”

  • 2 Chr 13:8
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    8Now you are declaring that you will resist the LORD’s rule through the Davidic dynasty. You have a huge army, and bring with you the gold calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.

  • Ps 72:11
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    11All kings will bow down to him; all nations will serve him.

  • 1 Kgs 8:52
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    52“May you be attentive to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you.

  • 2 Chr 12:11
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    11Whenever the king visited the LORD’s temple, the royal guards carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.

  • Neh 9:35-36
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    35Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible goodness that you had lavished on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.

    36“So today we are slaves! In the very land you gave to our ancestors to eat its fruit and to enjoy its good things– we are slaves!

  • Hos 8:4
    69%

    4The Political and Cultic Sin of Israel They enthroned kings without my consent! They appointed princes without my approval! They made idols out of their silver and gold, but they will be destroyed!

  • Zech 2:9
    69%

    9“Yes, look here, I am about to punish them so that they will be looted by their own slaves.” Then you will know that the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has sent me.

  • Isa 14:2
    69%

    2Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Israel will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the LORD’s land. They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.

  • Neh 1:10
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    10They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your mighty strength and by your powerful hand.

  • 2 Chr 12:2
    69%

    2Because they were unfaithful to the LORD, in King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 8:14
    68%

    14He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his own servants.

  • Hos 8:10
    68%

    10Even though they have hired lovers among the nations, I will soon gather them together for judgment. Then they will begin to waste away under the oppression of a mighty king.

  • Ezek 17:14
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    14so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.

  • 1 Chr 28:21
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    21Here are the divisions of the priests and Levites who will perform all the service of God’s temple. All the willing and skilled men are ready to assist you in all the work and perform their service. The officials and all the people are ready to follow your instructions.”

  • 1 Sam 8:11-12
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    11He said,“Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot.

    12He will appoint for himself leaders of thousands and leaders of fifties, as well as those who plow his ground, reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and his chariot equipment.

  • 1 Kgs 20:6
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    6But now at this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you and they will search through your palace and your servants’ houses. They will carry away all your valuables.’”

  • Jer 12:16
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    16But they must make sure to learn to follow the religious practices of my people. Once they taught my people to swear their oaths using the name of the god Baal. But then, they must swear oaths using my name, saying,“As surely as the LORD lives, I swear.” If they do these things, then they will be included among the people I call my own.

  • Deut 28:36
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    36The LORD will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

  • Ezek 44:14
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    14Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it.

  • 1 Kgs 12:15
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    15The king refused to listen to the people, because the LORD was instigating this turn of events so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

  • 2 Chr 8:15
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    15They did not neglect any detail of the king’s orders pertaining to the priests, Levites, and treasuries.

  • 2 Chr 9:7
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    7Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy!

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8The LORD was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.