“only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Judges 3 contains 31 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.