Judges 3:2
Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;In other versions
only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:
ASV
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;
BBE
it was only that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, that he might teach war to such at least as had not known it before.
DBY
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:
WEB
(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) --
YLT
Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
ENG
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;)
WBT
if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:
BSB
In context
1Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
2Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
3Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
4And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.