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2 Chronicles 12:8
“Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”
Verse in context — 2 Chronicles 12
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, "Yahweh is righteous.
When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house. He took it all away. He also took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.
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Solomon’s reign and Judah’s history until the Babylonian exile.
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