Bible verse
if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:
Judges 3:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from Judges 3.
1 These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
2 if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:
3 the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.
4 These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.
5 Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
6 And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
KJV
Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
ASV
only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:
ERV
only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof;
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