Verse 2
Judges 3:2
Bible in Basic English
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Only 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;
Original Language Text
hebrew
רַ֗ק לְמַ֨עַן֙ דַּ֚עַת דֹּר֣וֹת בְּנֵֽי יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְ/לַמְּדָ֖/ם מִלְחָמָ֑ה רַ֥ק אֲשֶׁר לְ/פָנִ֖ים לֹ֥א יְדָעֽוּ/ם
English Translation
Only for the purpose of knowing the generations of the people of Israel, for them to learn war, only that which [is] not in front they will not know.
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Chapter 3 Context
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Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them,...
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Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--onl...
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The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living...
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For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord,...
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Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the...
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And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and be...
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7
And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord the...
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8
So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-ri...
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9
And when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Othniel, the son of...
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10
And the spirit of the Lord came on him and he became judge of Israel, and went out to war, and the L...
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11
Then for forty years the land had peace, till the death of Othniel, the son of Kenaz.
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12
Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of...
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13
And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took th...
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14
And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years.
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15
Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of G...
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16
So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his ro...
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17
And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man.
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18
And after giving the offering, he sent away the people who had come with the offering.
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19
But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you i...
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20
Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a...
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21
And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach...
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And the hand-part went in after the blade, and the fat was joined up over the blade; for he did not...
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Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking t...
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Now when he had gone, the king's servants came, and saw that the doors of the summer-house were lock...
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And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key,...
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But Ehud had got away while they were waiting and had gone past the stone images and got away to Sei...
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And when he came there, he had a horn sounded in the hill-country of Ephraim, and all the children o...
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And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hand...
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At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of...
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So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.
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And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-st...
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