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2 Chronicles 12

2 Chron. 12:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Nevertheless they shall be hisn servants
`ebed (Hebrew #5650)
a servant
KJV usage: X bondage, bondman, (bond-)servant, (man-)servant.
Pronounce: eh'-bed
Origin: from 5647
; that they may know
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
my service
`abodah (Hebrew #5656)
from 5647; work of any kind
KJV usage: act, bondage, + bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office, service(-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, X wrought.
Pronounce: ab-o-daw'
Origin: or mabowdah {ab-o-daw'}
, and the service
`abodah (Hebrew #5656)
from 5647; work of any kind
KJV usage: act, bondage, + bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office, service(-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, X wrought.
Pronounce: ab-o-daw'
Origin: or mabowdah {ab-o-daw'}
of the kingdoms
mamlakah (Hebrew #4467)
dominion, i.e. (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm)
KJV usage: kingdom, king's, reign, royal.
Pronounce: mam-law-kaw'
Origin: from 4427
o of the countries
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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Neh. 9:36‑37• 36Behold, we are servants this day, and the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are bondmen in it.
 37And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure; and we are in great distress. (Neh. 9:36‑37)
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Isa. 26:13• 13Jehovah our God, other lords than thee have had dominion over us; by thee only will we make mention of thy name. (Isa. 26:13)
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Deut. 28:47‑48• 47Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything,
 48thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of everything; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. (Deut. 28:47‑48)

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Nevertheless.
Neh. 9:36• 36Behold, we are servants this day, and the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are bondmen in it. (Neh. 9:36)
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Isa. 26:13• 13Jehovah our God, other lords than thee have had dominion over us; by thee only will we make mention of thy name. (Isa. 26:13)
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Deut. 28:47• 47Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, (Deut. 28:47)
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Judg. 3:1• 1And these are the nations that Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, all that had not known all the wars of Canaan; (Judg. 3:1)
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Jer. 10:24• 24Jehovah, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. (Jer. 10:24)
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Hos. 8:10• 10Although they hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall begin to be straitened under the burden of the king of princes. (Hos. 8:10)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.