only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it:
They took their daughters to be their wives, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their gods. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they forgot Jehovah their God, and they served Baalim and the groves ( Judges 3:6-7 ).