2 Chronicles 12:8

Modern English Version

For they will be slaves to him so that they experience My labor and the labor of the kingdoms of other lands.”

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“Behold, we are slaves today. The land that You gave to our fathers was for eating its fruit and its goodness. Behold, we have become slaves in it,

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power.

O Lord our God, other lords besides You have had dominion over us, but through You alone we confess Your name.

O Lord, correct me, but with justice, not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

Though they hire among the nations, I will now gather them. They will begin to diminish due to the burden of the king of princes.

Now these are the nations that the Lord left to test those in Israel who had not experienced war in Canaan

(so that later generations of the Israelites who did not know war before might know it, to teach them how to fight):