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

² (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

² 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

² 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)

² 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

² They survived only to teach war to the generations of Israelites who had no firsthand knowledge of the earlier wars:

Catholic Public Domain Version

² so that afterward their sons might learn to contend with their enemies, and to have a willingness to do battle:

Judges 3:2 Cross References

2 Timothy 4:7

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

2 Timothy 2:3

Share in suffering like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

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.

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!”

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.”

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.

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 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.”

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.