World English Bible
Judges 3:2
“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:”
Verse in context — Judges 3
1
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;
2
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:
3
[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.
4
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.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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