Judges 3:2
(He did this to teach warfare to the new generation of the Israelites who had not known it before.)
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Genesis 2:17But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not eat, for on the day that you eat from it, you will surely die.”
Genesis 3:7The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Matthew 10:34Do not think that I came to bring peace upon the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
1 Corinthians 9:26Therefore I do not run without purpose or box by beating the air.
1 Timothy 6:12Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the everlasting life to which you were called, and about which you gave the good confession before many witnesses.
2 Timothy 4:7I have competed in the good contest; 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 →