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Judges 3:2

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only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:

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Judges 3:2 in other translations

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:

Judges 3:2 · American Standard Version

Judges 3:2 in context

  1. 1Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
  2. 2only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:
  3. 3the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
  4. 4They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to Yahweh’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.