Key Verse Spotlight
Judges 3:2 — Meaning and Application
King James 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;”
Judges 3:2
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Now 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;
Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
{Namely}, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
And 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.
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