2 (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):

2 It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.

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;

2 (this was only so that the generations of the children of Israel might be taught to know war, at least those who had not formerly known it),

2 (The only reason the Lord left those nations in the land was to teach the descendants of the Israelites who had not fought in those wars how to fight.)

2 only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:

2 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:

2 The Lord left them to teach Israel’s descendants about war, at least those who had known nothing about it in the past.

2 This was to teach the future generations of the Israelites how to fight in battle, especially those who had not fought before.

2 (it was only that successive generations of Israelites might know war, to teach those who had no experience of it before):

2 in order that the generations of Israel would know war, to teach those who had not experienced it before):

2 He wanted to teach the men in Israel who had never been in battle before. He wanted them to learn how to fight.

2 only in order that the generations of the sons of Israel might be taught war, those who had not experienced it formerly).