2 Chronicles 12:8

Tree of Life Version

However, they will become subjects to him so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of the earth.”

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“But see, even today we are slaves! Slaves in the land that You gave to our ancestors to eat of its fruit and its bounty. We are slaves in it.

Their enemies oppressed them, so they were subdued under their hand.

Adonai Eloheinu, other lords beside You have had dominion over us, but we remember Your Name alone.

Chasten me, Adonai, but with justice, not in Your anger, lest You reduce me to nothing.

Although they hire among the nations, I will now round them up. So they will begin to decrease under the burden of king and princes.

Now these are the nations that Adonai left, to test all Israel who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan.

It was only in order that the generations of Bnei-Yisrael might learn from war, which they had not experienced before.