Judges 3:2

Brenton⁽ⁱ⁾ ² Only for the sake of the generations of Israel, to teach them war, only the men before them knew them not.

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might know.
Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:5; Genesis 3:7; 2 Chronicles 12:8; Matthew 10:34-39; John 16:33; 1 Corinthians 9:26; 1 Corinthians 9:27
Ephesians 6:11-18; 1 Timothy 6:12; 2 Timothy 2:3; 2 Timothy 4:7
to teach.Their fathers fought by a divine power. God taught their hands to war and their fingers to fight, that they might be the instruments of destruction to the wicked nations on whom the curse rested; but now that they had forfeited His favour, they must learn what it is to fight like other men.