Bible in Basic English
"Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--only those who up till then had no experience of it;"
— Judges 3:2, Bible in Basic English
“Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;”
“only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof: ”
“only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it:”
“He left those nations simply because he wanted to teach the subsequent generations of Israelites, who had not experienced the earlier battles, how to conduct holy war.”
Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan;
Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--only those who up till then had no experience of it;
The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath:
For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses.
Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: