2 Chroniques 12:8

Darby's French Translation

mais ils lui seront asservis, et ils connaîtront ce que c'est que mon service, et le service des royaumes des pays.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Toutefois ils lui seront asservis, afin qu'ils sachent ce que c'est que de me servir ou de servir les royaumes des autres pays.

Louis Segond (1910)
mais ils lui seront assujettis, et ils sauront ce que c'est que me servir ou servir les royaumes des autres pays.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Toutefois ils lui seront asservis, afin qu'ils sachent ce que c'est que de ma servitude, et de la servitude des Royaumes de la terre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Nevertheless: Nehemiah 9:36, Isaiah 26:13

that they may: Deuteronomy 28:47, Judges 3:1, Jeremiah 10:24, Hosea 8:10

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:48 - serve Judges 3:2 - might know Job 36:15 - openeth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Nevertheless, they shall be his servants,.... tributaries to the king of Egypt:

that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries; the difference between them, how easy the one, which they might perform without taxes and tributes, and how hard and heavy the other, through the exactions and exorbitant demands of those to whom they became subjects.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That they may know my service, and the service of the kingdom - i. e., that they may contrast the light burthen of the theocracy with the heavy yoke of a foreign monarch.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 12:8. They shall be his servants — They shall be preserved, and serve their enemies, that they may see the difference between the service of God and that of man. While they were pious, they found the service of the Lord to be perfect freedom; when they forsook the Lord, they found the fruit to be perfect bondage. A sinful life is both expensive and painful.