2(he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):
2(he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):
1 These are the nations the LORD left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan
2 (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):
3 the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath.
4 They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the LORD 's commands, which he had given their forefathers through Moses.
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 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;