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.
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.
1 Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had no experience of any war in Canaan;
2 it 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 These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sido'nians, and the Hivites who dwelt on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Ba'al-her'mon as far as the entrance of Hamath.
4 They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the LORD, 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:
3:2only 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 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;