Judges 3:2
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That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:

might know

Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.

Genesis 3:5,7 For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil. . . .

2 Chronicles 12:8 But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference between my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.

Matthew 10:34-39 Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. . . .

John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress. But have confidence. I have overcome the world.

1 Corinthians 9:26,27 I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air. . . .

Ephesians 6:11-18 Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil. . . .

1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called and be it confessed a good confession before many witnesses.

2 Timothy 2:3 Labour as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith.

to teach.

Context
Nations Left to Test Israel
1These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites: 2That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:3The five princes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hevites that dwelt in Mount Libanus, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entering into Emath.…
Cross References
Judges 3:1
These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:

Judges 3:3
The five princes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hevites that dwelt in Mount Libanus, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entering into Emath.

Lexicon
if only
רַ֗ק (raq)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 7535: But, even, except, howbeit howsoever, at the least, nevertheless

to teach
לְלַמְּדָ֖ם (lə·lam·mə·ḏām)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3925: To exercise in, learn

warfare
מִלְחָמָ֑ה (mil·ḥā·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4421: A battle, war

to the subsequent generations
דֹּר֣וֹת (dō·rō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1755: A revolution of time, an age, generation, a dwelling

of Israel,
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

especially
רַ֥ק (raq)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 7535: But, even, except, howbeit howsoever, at the least, nevertheless

to those who
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

had not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

known it
יְדָעֽוּם׃ (yə·ḏā·‘ūm)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

formerly:
לְפָנִ֖ים (lə·p̄ā·nîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face


Additional Translations
if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:

Only for the sake of the generations of Israel, to teach them war, only the men before them knew them not.

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know war by learning it, at the least those who before had known nothing thereof:

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof;

Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it;)

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it:

(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) --
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