Judges 3:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Judges 3:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew (b) nothing thereof; (b) For they trusted in God and he fought for them.
Judges 3:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 2:6 to Judges 3:6 . The Deuteronomist's Introduction to the Book of Judges proper ( Judges 3:5 to Judges 16:31 ). In the view of this interpreter of sacred history, the whole era of the...
Judges 3:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

children . sons.
Judges 3:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; That - Israel might know, to teach them war - This was another rea...
Judges 3:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Only that the generations of the children of Israel— The sacred writer having declared in the former verse the reason why certain of the Canaanites were left, namely, to prove the Israelites; and...
Judges 3:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; No JFB commentary on these verses.
Judges 3:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Introductory ( Judges 1:1 to Judges 3:4 ) Division 1, Judges 1:1 to Judges 2:5 . This section of the book contains a brief recapitulation of the early conquest of Palestine, told from a some...
Judges 3:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war. — The LXX. here render, “Only because of the generations of the children of Israel to teach them war.” The Vulgate...
Judges 3:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE ARM OF ARAM AND OF OTHNIEL Judges 3:1-11 WE come now to a statement of no small importance, which may be the cause of some perplexity. It is emphatically affirmed that God fulfilled His des...
Judges 3:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Delivered from Mesopotamian Oppression Judges 3:1-14 Our sins and failures will sometimes be so overruled as to promote the growth of our souls in the true knowledge of ourselves and of God. It...
Judges 3:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

God left certain nations, a company of stem, implacable enemies, in order to prove Israel. The overruling of God is set forth remarkably in this declaration. The people who had refused to cast out th...
Judges 3:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This is an interesting chapter, and the first verse acts as a key to let us into the meaning of it. The Lord, we are told, left those nations to prove Israel. Hence we learn, that the trials of God's...
Judges 3:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know and teach them war ,.... That is, the following nations were left in the land, that the young generations of Israel might by their wars...
Judges 3:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; Ver. 2. Might know, to teach them war. ] At their own costs and...
Judges 3:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Only that the generations , &c. Le Clerc and some other versions, instead of only put and , this seeming to be a new and additional reason alleged why God left some of the Canaanitish nations...
Judges 3:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE NATIONS LEFT TO TEST ISRAEL (vv. 1-6) The younger Israelites had not learned war, and were faced now with learning it by means of the nations left in the land, for God is not going to exempt...
Judges 3:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Idolatry of the Israelites. B. C. 1406. 1 Now these are the nations which the L OR...
Judges 3:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Might know, to teach them war; that by the neighbourhood of such warlike potent enemies, they might be purged from sloth and security, and obliged to inure themselves to martial exercises, and to s...
Judges 3:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 3. Deliverers. This chapter gives an account of the nations who remained in Canaan to prove Israel's faithfulness, and who became a snare to them. It describes the servitude of Israel unde...
Judges 3:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

GOD’S MEANS OF TESTING CHARACTER AND CHASTISING FOR SIN.— Judges 3:1-4 CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 3:1 . Which the Lord left.] Allowed to remain, i.e., spared from doom ; not— did not mark out...
Judges 3:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 3:7 . The children of Israel served Baalim and the groves. So is the French. אשׁרות asheroth; rendered by the Chaldaic and the Latin versions, lucis, light. The sense seems to be a revo...
Judges 3:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

The nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them. The trial and chastisement of an unfaithful people I. It was God’s own thought to put them to the proof. 1. Far otherwise were the t...
Judges 3:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Judges 3:1 Now these are the nations , etc. We are now told in detail what was stated in general in Judges 2:22 , Judges 2:23 , after the common method of Hebrew narrative. T...
Judges 3:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Nations Which Remained
Judges 3:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 9:26 ; 1 Corinthians 9:27 ; 1 Timothy 6:12 ; 2 Chronicles 12:8 ; 2 Timothy 2:3 ; 2 Timothy 4:7 ; Ephesians 6:11-18 ; Genesis 2:17 ; Genesis 3:5 ; Genesis 3:7 ; John 16:33 ;...
Judges 3:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Teach them war — That by the neighbourhood of such warlike enemies, they might be purged from sloth and security, and obliged them to innure themselves to martial exercises, and to stand continuall...

Judges 3:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Judges 3:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 3:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Judges 3:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 3:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Judges 3:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 3:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 3:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 3:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 3:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Judges 3:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 3:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 3:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 3:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 3:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 3:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 3:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 3:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 3:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 3:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 3:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 3:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Judges 3:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 3:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 3:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 3:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes