Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good of it, behold, we are servants in it.
2 Chronicles 12:8 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Nevertheless, they shall be his servants, that they may know [the difference between] My service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. American Standard Version (1901) Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. Common English Bible Nevertheless, they will be subject to him so that they learn the difference between serving me and serving other nations. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, they shall serve him, so that they may know the difference between my servitude, and the servitude of a kingdom of the lands." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference between my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth. |
Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good of it, behold, we are servants in it.
Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.
The LORD our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but by you only will we make mention of your name.
LORD, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Yisra'el by them, even as many [of Yisra'el] as had not known all the wars of Kena`an;
only that the generations of the children of Yisra'el might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it: