Judges 3:2

Verse 2 of 31. The 3rd of 21 chapters in Judges, in History.

1Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

2Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;

3Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal–hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.

4And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

5And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

6And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

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only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:
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Matthew Henry on Judges 3:2

The learned bishop Patrick offers another sense of v. 2: That they might know to teach them war, that is, they shall know what it is to be left to themselves. Their fathers fought by a divine power. God taught their hands to war and their fingers to fight; but now that they have forfeited his favour let them learn what it is to fight like other men.

Read Matthew Henry on Judges 3:1–7: The Idolatry of the Israelites. (b. c. 1406.)

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.