Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsonly that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:
if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:
(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) --
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:
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJudges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.
- Author
- Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
- Date
- Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy