2 Chronicles 12:8
Nevertheless, they will be his servants, so that they may understand what it is to serve me and to serve the rulers of the other countries.”
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Deuteronomy 28:48therefore will you serve the enemies that Yahweh will send against you; you will serve them in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in poverty. He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he destroys you.
Judges 3:2(He did this to teach warfare to the new generation of the Israelites who had not known it before.)
Psalms 106:42Their enemies oppressed them, 1 and they were brought into subjection to their authority. 1
Jeremiah 10:24Discipline me, Yahweh, with justice, not in your anger or you would destroy me. 1
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 12:2-13
Abijah's Reign over Judah. ( b. c. 970.) 1 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the Lord , and all Israel with him. 2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the Lord , 3 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and… Read the whole commentary →