2 Chronicles 12:8

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But they will become his servants so that they can learn the difference between serving me and serving foreign kings.”

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Look ⌞at us⌟ now. We’re slaves! In the land you gave our ancestors, they could eat its produce and ⌞enjoy⌟ its good things. But now we’re slaves!

Their enemies oppressed them and made them subject to their power.

O Lord, our God, you are not the only master to rule us, but we acknowledge only you.

Correct me, O Lord, but please be fair. Don’t correct me when you’re angry. Otherwise, you’ll reduce me to nothing.

Even though they sold themselves among the nations, I will gather them now. They will suffer for a while under the burdens of kings and princes.

These are the nations the Lord left behind to test all the Israelites who had not experienced any war in Canaan.

The Lord left them to teach Israel’s descendants about war, at least those who had known nothing about it in the past.