2only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:
2only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:
1 Now these are the nations which Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
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:
3 namely , the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entrance of Hamath.
4 And they were left , to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.
3:2(he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):
3:2Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
3:2That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:
3:2it was only that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, that he might teach war to such at least as had not known it before.
3:2only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof;
3:2Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it;)
3:2only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it:
3:2(only for the sake of the generations of the sons of Israel's knowing, to teach them war, only those who formerly have not known them) —
3:2Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;