Judges 3:2
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:
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Genesis 2:17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt certainly 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 10:34Do not think that I have come to send peace upon the earth: I have not come to send peace, but a sword.
1 Corinthians 9:26*I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.
1 Timothy 6:12Strive earnestly [in] the good conflict of faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.
2 Timothy 4:7I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, 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 →