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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 12:8 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
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. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
But (כּי after a negative clause) they shall be his servants, sc. for a short time (see Ch2 12:7), "that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries" (cf. Ch1 29:30); i.e., that they may learn to know by experience the difference between the rule of God and that of the heathen kings, and that God's rule was not so oppressive as that of the rulers of the world. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
May know - That they may experimentally know the difference between my yoke and the yoke of a foreign and idolatrous prince. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
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. |
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.