World English Bible
"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:"
— Judges 3:2, World English Bible
“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: ”
“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;”
Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to prove Israel by them, even as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
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:
[namely], the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
They were [left], to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of Yahweh, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.
The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: