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Judges 3:1-3
Living Bible
Judges 3:1-3
Living Bible
3 1-3 Here is a list of the nations the Lord left in the land to test the new generation of Israel who had not experienced the wars of Canaan. For God wanted to give opportunity to the youth of Israel to exercise faith and obedience[a] in conquering their enemies: the Philistines (five cities), the Canaanites, the Sidonians, the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from Baal-hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
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- Judges 3:1 youth of Israel to exercise faith and obedience, implied in 2:22 and 3:4. in conquering their enemies, literally, “that . . . the people might know war.”
Judges 3:1-2
New International Version
Judges 3:1-2
New International Version
3 These are the nations the Lord left to test(A) all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan 2 (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):
Judges 3:1-2
King James Version
Judges 3:1-2
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3 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;
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