2 Chronicles 12:8

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

For they shall be to him for servants; and they shall know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.

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Behold, we this day are servants, and the land which thou gavest to our fathers to eat its fruit and its goodness, behold, we are servants upon it:

And their enemies will press them, and they shall be humbled under their hand.

O Jehovah our God, lords besides thee had dominion over us; but in thee alone will we make mention of thy name.

Correct me, O Jehovah, but in judgment, not in thy wrath, lest thou shalt make me small.

Also if they will hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and shall they be weak a little from the lifting up of the king of the princes.

These the nations which Jehovah left to try Israel by them, (all which knew not the wars of Canaan;

Only for the generations of the sons of Israel to know to teach them war, only who before knew not;)