2That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:
2That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:
1 These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:
2 That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:
3 The five princes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hevites that dwelt in mount Libanus, from mount Baal Hermon to the entering into Emath.
4 And he left them, that he might try Israel by them, whether they would hear the commandments of the Lord, which he had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses, or not.
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;
3:2only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:
3:2it 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;