Judges 3:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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;

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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:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² 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, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Genesis 3:5

for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

Genesis 3:7

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

2 Chronicles 12:8

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

John 16:33

These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

1 Timothy 6:12

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

2 Timothy 2:3

Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

Judges 3:1

Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

Judges 3:3

namely, the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Zidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.