Judges 3:2
What does Judges 3:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Judges 3:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:
KJV
King James Version · 1611Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--only those who up till then had no experience of it;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862(only for the sake of the generations of the sons of Israel's knowing, to teach them war, only those who formerly have not known them) --
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890only that the generations of the children of Israel might know war by learning it, at the least those who before had known nothing thereof:
Context
v.1Now these are the nations which Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
v.2This passage
v.3namely, the 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 entrance of Hamath.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:
- Genesis 3:5
for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.
- John 16:33
These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
- Ephesians 6:11
Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
- Genesis 2:17
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
- Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.