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Judges 3:1-4

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3:1 These were the nations the Lord permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel – he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites. 1  3:2 He left those nations simply because he wanted to teach the subsequent generations of Israelites, who had not experienced the earlier battles, how to conduct holy war. 2  3:3 These were the nations: 3  the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo-Hamath. 4  3:4 They were left to test Israel, so the Lord would know if his people would obey the commands he gave their ancestors through Moses. 5 

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[3:1]  1 tn Heb “did not know the wars of Canaan.”

[3:2]  2 tn The Hebrew syntax of v. 2 is difficult. The Hebrew text reads literally, “only in order that the generations of the Israelites might know, to teach them war – only those who formerly did not know them.”

[3:3]  3 tn The words “These were the nations,” though not present in the Hebrew text, are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[3:3]  4 tn Or “the entrance to Hamath.”

[3:4]  5 tn Heb “to know if they would hear the commands of the Lord which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.”



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