2 Chronicles 12:8

Modern King James Version

But they shall be his servants, so that they may know My service, and the service of the kings of the countries.

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Behold, we are servants today. And the land that You gave to our fathers to eat its fruit, and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

And their enemies oppressed them, and they were humbled under their hand.

O Jehovah our God, lords besides You have had the rule over us; but by You only will we make mention of Your name.

O Jehovah, correct me, but with judgment; not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now I will gather them. And they began to be few, from the burden of the king of rulers.

And these are the nations which Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

only that the generations of the sons of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least those who before knew nothing of it: