Judges 3:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

(it was only for successive generations of Israelites, to teach war to those who had no experience of it):

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

It was only that the generations of the Israelites might know and be taught war, at least those who previously knew nothing of it.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

They survived only to teach war to the generations of Israelites who had no firsthand knowledge of the earlier wars:

Catholic Public Domain Version

so that afterward their sons might learn to contend with their enemies, and to have a willingness to do battle:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war.

Judges 3:2 Cross References

Genesis 2:17

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”

Genesis 3:5

for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Genesis 3:7

Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

2 Chronicles 12:8

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

John 16:33

I have said this to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution, but take courage: I have conquered the world!”

1 Timothy 6:12

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and for which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

2 Timothy 2:3

Share in suffering like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought the good fight; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.

Judges 3:1

Now these are the nations that the Lord left to test all those in Israel who had no experience of war in Canaan

Judges 3:3

the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.