Catholic Public Domain Version
"so that afterward their sons might learn to contend with their enemies, and to have a willingness to do battle: "
— Judges 3:2, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:”
“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;”
“Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;”
These are the nations which the Lord left, so that by them he might instruct Israel and all who had not known the wars of the Canaanites,
so that afterward their sons might learn to contend with their enemies, and to have a willingness to do battle:
the five princes of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who were living on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-Hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath.
And he left them, so that by them he might test Israel, as to whether or not they would listen to the commandments of the Lord, which he instructed to their fathers by the hand of Moses.
And so, the sons of Israel lived in the midst of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.