Old TestamentJudgesNations Left to Test Israel · 3:1–63:1 Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;3:2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;3:3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.3:4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.3:5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:3:6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
