Judges 3:1–5 · BSB
3:1
These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
3:2
if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:
3:3
the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.
3:4
These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.
3:5
Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
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