Judges 3:2
(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)—
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Genesis 2:17but from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you do not eat from it, for in the day of your eating from it—dying you die.”
Genesis 3:7and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they [are] naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make girdles for themselves.
Matthew 10:34You may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;
1 Corinthians 9:26I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;
1 Timothy 6:12Be striving the good strife of the faith; be laying hold on the continuous life to which you also were called, and did profess the right profession before many witnesses.
2 Timothy 4:7I have striven the good strife, 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 →