Judges 3:2
That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 2:17But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. for in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.
Genesis 3:7And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made themselves aprons.
Matthew 10:34Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air:
1 Timothy 6:12Fight the good fight of faith: lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called, and hast confessed a good confession before many witnesses.
2 Timothy 4:7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my 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 →