2 Chronicles 12:8
Good News Translation
but Shishak will conquer them, and they will learn the difference between serving me and serving earthly rulers."

New Revised Standard Version
Nevertheless they shall be his servants, so that they may know the difference between serving me and serving the kingdoms of other lands.”

Contemporary English Version
he will conquer and rule them. Then my people will know what it's like to serve a foreign king instead of serving me.

New American Bible
But they shall be his servants. Then they will know what it is to serve me and what it is to serve the kingdoms of the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference between my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference between my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.

Nevertheless

Nehemiah 9:36 Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which thou gavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good things thereof, and we ourselves are servants in it.

Isaiah 26:13 O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us, only in thee let us remember thy name.

that they may

Deuteronomy 28:47 Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:

Judges 3:1 These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:

Jeremiah 10:24 Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgment: and not in thy fury, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Hosea 8:10 But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes.

Context
Shishak Raids Jerusalem
7And when the Lord saw that they were humbled, the word of the Lord came to Semeias, saying: Because they are humbled, I will not destroy them, and I will give them a little help, and my wrath shall not fall upon Jerusalem by the hand of Sesac. 8But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference between my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:47
Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:

Deuteronomy 28:48
Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee.

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