2 Chronicles 12:8
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But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference between my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.

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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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.
Lexicon
Nevertheless,
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

they will become
יִהְיוּ־ (yih·yū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

his servants,
לַעֲבָדִ֑ים (la·‘ă·ḇā·ḏîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5650: Slave, servant

so that they may learn
וְיֵדְעוּ֙ (wə·yê·ḏə·‘ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

the difference between serving
עֲב֣וֹדָתִ֔י (‘ă·ḇō·w·ḏā·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5656: Work of any kind

Me and serving
וַעֲבוֹדַ֖ת (wa·‘ă·ḇō·w·ḏaṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5656: Work of any kind

the kings
מַמְלְכ֥וֹת (mam·lə·ḵō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 4467: Kingdom, sovereignty, dominion, reign

of other lands.”
הָאֲרָצֽוֹת׃ (hā·’ă·rā·ṣō·wṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land


Additional Translations
Nevertheless, they will become his servants, so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of other lands.”Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

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

Nevertheless they shall be servants, and know my service, and the service of the kings of the earth.

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

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

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

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

but they become servants to him, and they know My service, and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.'
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