2 Chronicles 12:8 BSB

2 Chronicles 12:8

Nevertheless, they will become his servants, so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of other lands.”

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Nevertheless, they shall be his servants,.... tributaries to the king of Egypt: that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries; the difference between them, how easy the one, which they might perform without taxes and tributes, and how hard and heavy the other, through the exactions and exorbitant demands of those to whom they became subjects.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

They shall be his servants - They shall be preserved, and serve their enemies, that they may see the difference between the service of God and that of man. While they were pious, they found the service of the Lord to be perfect freedom; when they forsook the Lord, they found the fruit to be perfect bondage. A sinful life is both expensive and painful.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2306: “Servitude Or Service—Which?” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1893)

THE people of God had left their God and He had left them, so that Shishak, the king of Egypt, came against them, and though the Lord had respect to their humble prayer and would not suffer Shishak to destroy Jerusalem, yet He brought them into subjection to the Egyptian king. Our text tells us the reason for this servitude—"They shall be his servants; that they may know My service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries." Beloved Friends, the children of Israel were bound to the service of God.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֥י	ki	for	H3588 →
יִהְיוּ־	yih.yu-	they will become	H1961 →
ל֖וֹ	lo	of him
לַעֲבָדִ֑ים	la.'a.va.Dim	<into> subjects	H5650 →
וְיֵדְעוּ֙	ve.ye.de.'U	so they may know	H3045 →
עֲב֣וֹדָתִ֔י	a.Vo.da.Ti	service my	H5656 →
וַעֲבוֹדַ֖ת	va.'a.vo.Dat	and [the] service of	H5656 →
מַמְלְכ֥וֹת	mam.le.Khot	[the] kingdoms of	H4467 →
הָאֲרָצֽוֹת׃ ס	ha.'a.ra.Tzot	the lands	H776 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 10:24
Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
leads to
- Psalms 38:1
  O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
- Psalms 6:1
  O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
- Jeremiah 30:11
  For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will…
Through
Judges 3:1
These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
leads to
- Judges 2:21–22
  I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
- Deuteronomy 7:22
  The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.
- Proverbs 17:3
  A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
Through
Hosea 8:10
Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.
leads to
- Ezekiel 16:37
  therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you…
- Ezekiel 26:7
  For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company…

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06About 2 Chronicles

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