2 Chronicles 12:8

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Nevertheless they shall be servants to him, that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”

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Behold, we are slaves this day; in the land that thou gavest to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves.

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

O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have ruled over us, but thy name alone we acknowledge.

Correct me, O Lord, but in just measure; not in thy anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And they shall cease for a little while from anointing king and princes.

Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had no experience of any war in Canaan;

it was only that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, that he might teach war to such at least as had not known it before.