Judges 3:2

In 11 translations

BSB

if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:

KJV

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

WEB

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:

ASV

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:

LSV

(only for the sake of the generations of the sons of Israel knowing, to teach them war, only those who formerly have not known them)—

YLT

(only for the sake of the generations of the sons of Israel's knowing, to teach them war, only those who formerly have not known them) —

DBY

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know war by learning it, at the least those who before had known nothing thereof:

DRC

That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:

GNV

Only to make the generations of the children of Israel to know, and to teach them warre, which doutles their predecessors knew not)

JPS

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

LXXE

Only for the sake of the generations of Israel, to teach them war, only the men before them knew them not.

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Original-language editions

WLC

רַ֗ק לְמַ֨עַן֙ דַּ֚עַת דֹּר֣וֹת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְלַמְּדָ֖ם מִלְחָמָ֑ה רַ֥ק אֲשֶׁר־לְפָנִ֖ים לֹ֥א יְדָעֽוּם׃

LXX-Br

Πλὴν διὰ τὰς γενεὰς υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ τοῦ διδάξαι αὐτοὺς πόλεμον, πλὴν οἱ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῶν οὐκ ἔγνωσαν αὐτά.

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• 2 Timothy 2:3Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
• 1 Timothy 6:12Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses.
• Ephesians 6:11–18Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this…
• 1 Corinthians 9:26–27Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air. No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
• John 16:33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
• 2 Timothy 4:7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
• Matthew 10:34–39Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her…
• Genesis 2:17but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
• Genesis 3:5“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
• 2 Chronicles 12:8Nevertheless, they will become his servants, so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of other lands.”
• Genesis 3:7And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.

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