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 the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many 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 Zidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
4 And they were for to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of 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:
3:2it 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 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;