Judges 3:2
only that the generations of the sons of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least to such as formerly knew nothing of that):
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Genesis 2:17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it. For in the day that thou eat of it thou shall surely die.
Genesis 3:7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Matthew 10:34Think not that I came to spread peace on the earth. I came not to spread peace, but a sword.
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air.
1 Timothy 6:12Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life for which thou are called, and confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
2 Timothy 4:7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
Matthew Henry on Judges 3:2-8
The Idolatry of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1406.) 1 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; 2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; 3 Namely, 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. 4 And they were… Read the whole commentary →