Hakim-hakim 3:2

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

--Maksudnya hanyalah, supaya keturunan-keturunan orang Israel yang tidak mengenal perang yang sudah-sudah, dilatih berperang oleh TUHAN.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
--Maksudnya hanyalah, supaya keturunan-keturunan orang Israel yang tidak mengenal perang yang sudah-sudah, dilatih berperang oleh TUHAN.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Pertama-tama supaya segala bangsa bani Israel dapat belajar berperang, yaitu segala orang yang tiada mengetahui akan dia dahulu.

Contextual Overview

¹ These are the nations whiche the Lorde left, that he might proue Israel by them: (euen as many of Israel as had not knowen al the warres of Chanaan: ² Onely for the learning of the generations of the childre of Israel that he also might teach them warre, onely such as before knewe nothing therof.) ³ Of those whom he left, there were fiue lordes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and the Sidonites, & the Heuites that dwelt in mount Libanon, euen from mount Baal Hermon, vnto one come to Hamath. ⁴ Those remayned to proue Israel by, and to wyt whether they would hearken vnto the commaundementes of the Lorde, which he commaunded their fathers by the hande of Moyses. ⁵ And the children of Israel dwelt among the Chanaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Pherezites, Heuites, and Iebusites, ⁶ And toke the daughters of them to be their wiues, & gaue their own daughters to their sonnes, and serued their goddes. ⁷ And the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lorde, and forgat the Lorde their God, and serued Baalim and Astheroth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

might know: Genesis 2:17, Genesis 3:5, Genesis 3:7, 2 Chronicles 12:8, Matthew 10:34-39, John 16:33, 1 Corinthians 9:26, 1 Corinthians 9:27, Ephesians 6:11-18, 1 Timothy 6:12, 2 Timothy 2:3, 2 Timothy 4:7

to teach: Their fathers fought by a divine power. God taught their hands to war and their fingers to fight, that they might be the instruments of destruction to the wicked nations on whom the curse rested; but now that they had forfeited His favour, they must learn what it is to fight like other men.

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 5:22 - the war was of God

Cross-References

Psalms 58:4
They haue poyson [within them] lyke to the poyson of a serpent: they be lyke the deafe adder that stoppeth her eares,

Gill's Notes on the 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 and conflicts with them learn the art of war, and be inured to martial discipline; which, if none had been left to engage with, they had been ignorant of: besides, their fathers in Joshua's time, as Jarchi and Kimchi observe, had no need to learn the art of war, for God fought for them; they did not get possession of the land by their own arm, and by their sword, but by the power of God in a miraculous way; but now this was not to be expected, and the Canaanites were left among them to expel, that they might be trained up in the knowledge of warlike affairs, and so be also capable of teaching their children the military art; which they should make use of in obeying the command of God, by driving out the remains of the Canaanites, and not give themselves up to sloth and indolence; though some think that the meaning is, that God left these nations among them, that they might know what war was, and the sad effects of it; and the difference of fighting with their enemies alone, as other men, and the Lord fighting along with them, and for them, as he did for their fathers:

at least such as before knew nothing thereof; being either unborn, or at an age incapable of bearing arms, or learning the art of war.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 3:2. That - Israel might know, to teach them war — This was another reason why the Canaanites were left in the land, that the Israelites might not forget military discipline, but habituate themselves to the use of arms, that they might always be able to defend themselves against their foes. Had they been faithful to God, they would have had no need of learning the art of war; but now arms became a sort of necessary substitute for that spiritual strength which had departed from them. Thus Gods in his judgments leaves one iniquitous nation to harass and torment another. Were all to turn to God, men need learn war no more.