Judges 3:2
Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it;)
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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 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 for themselves aprons.
Matthew 10:34Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so I fight, not as one that beateth the air:
1 Timothy 6:12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession 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 →