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2Ch 12:8 King James 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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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
That they may know my service, and the service of the kingdom - i. e., that they may contrast the light burthen of the theocracy with the heavy yoke of a foreign monarch.
 
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30 With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.
7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.