Judges 3:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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;

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  • Gen 2:17 : 17 But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.
  • Gen 3:5 : 5 For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.
  • Gen 3:7 : 7 And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.
  • 2 Chr 12:8 : 8 But still they will become his servants, so that they may see how different my yoke is from the yoke of the kingdoms of the lands.
  • Matt 10:34-39 : 34 Do not have the thought that I have come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: 36 And a man will be hated by those of his house. 37 He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me. 38 And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me. 39 He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.
  • John 16:33 : 33 I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.
  • 1 Cor 9:26-27 : 26 So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air: 27 But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.
  • Eph 6:11-18 : 11 Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One. 12 For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens. 13 For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place. 14 Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 Be ready with the good news of peace as shoes on your feet; 16 And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One. 17 And take salvation for your head-dress and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,
  • 1 Tim 6:12 : 12 Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.
  • 2 Tim 2:3 : 3 Be ready to do without the comforts of life, as one of the army of Christ Jesus.
  • 2 Tim 4:7 : 7 I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 3:1
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    1 Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan;

  • Judg 3:3-5
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    3 The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath:

    4 For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses.

    5 Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

  • Judg 2:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22 In order to put Israel to the test, and see if they will keep the way of the Lord, walking in it as their fathers did, or not.

    23 So the Lord let those nations go on living in the land, not driving them out quickly, and did not give them up into the hands of Joshua.

  • Deut 31:13
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    13 And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the fear of the Lord your God, while you are living in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

  • Ps 78:6
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    6 So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;

  • Deut 3:18
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    18 At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.

  • Deut 1:39
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    39 And your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs.

  • Deut 11:2
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    2 And be certain in your minds this day; for these words are not said to your children, who have had no experience of the training of the Lord your God, and who have not seen his great power or his strong hand and his stretched-out arm,

  • Josh 11:19-20
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    68%

    19 Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war.

    20 For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

  • Deut 20:18
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    18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

  • Deut 4:38
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    38 Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

  • Josh 22:12
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    12 Then all the meeting of the children of Israel, hearing this, came together at Shiloh to go up against them to war.

  • Deut 4:10
    68%

    10 That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.

  • Judg 2:10
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    10 And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.

  • Josh 4:24
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    24 So that all the peoples of the earth may see that the hand of the Lord is strong; and that they may go in fear of the Lord your God for ever.

  • Deut 9:2
    67%

    2 A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of Anak.

  • Num 31:2-4
    3 verses
    67%

    2 Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.

    3 So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.

    4 From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.

  • Josh 23:3
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    3 You have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the Lord your God who has been fighting for you.

  • Num 31:17-18
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    17 So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

    18 But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.

  • Num 21:14
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    14 As it says in the book of the Wars of the Lord, Vaheb in Suphah, and the valley of the Amon;

  • Joel 3:9
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    9 And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,

  • Judg 6:3
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    3 And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

  • Deut 20:3
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    3 Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be strong; do not let uncontrolled fear overcome you because of those who are against you;

  • Neh 9:24
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    24 So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

  • Num 32:17
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    17 But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.

  • Deut 31:19
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    19 Make then this song for yourselves, teaching it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

  • Num 1:3
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    3 All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron.

  • Exod 13:17
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    17 Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt.

  • Num 1:45
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    45 So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war,

  • Judg 1:1
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    1 Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites?

  • Num 32:20
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    20 Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,

  • Josh 22:27
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    27 But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.

  • Judg 11:4
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    4 Now after a time the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

  • Deut 2:16
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    16 So when death had overtaken all the men of war among the people,

  • Josh 3:10
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    10 And Joshua said, By this you will see that the living God is among you, and that he will certainly send out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.

  • Deut 8:2
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    2 And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.

  • Josh 5:6
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    6 For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • 1 Chr 22:12
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    12 Only may the Lord give you wisdom, and knowledge of his orders for Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.