“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.
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.” 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. |
“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.
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.