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Judges 3:2-4
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Judges 3:2-4
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3 1-3 Here is a list of the nations the Lord left in the land to test the new generation of Israel who had not experienced the wars of Canaan. For God wanted to give opportunity to the youth of Israel to exercise faith and obedience[a] in conquering their enemies: the Philistines (five cities), the Canaanites, the Sidonians, the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from Baal-hermon to the entrance of Hamath. 4 These people were a test to the new generation of Israel, to see whether they would obey the commandments the Lord had given to them through Moses.
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- Judges 3:1 youth of Israel to exercise faith and obedience, implied in 2:22 and 3:4. in conquering their enemies, literally, “that . . . the people might know war.”
Judges 3:2-4
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Judges 3:2-4
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2 (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience): 3 the five(A) rulers of the Philistines,(B) all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites(C) living in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon(D) to Lebo Hamath.(E) 4 They were left to test(F) the Israelites to see whether they would obey the Lord’s commands, which he had given their ancestors through Moses.
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