Judges 3:1-6

¹The following are the nations the Lord left and used to test all those Israelites who had not known what it was like to be part of any of the wars in Canaan.

²(He did so to teach warfare to the later generations of Israel, particularly to those who had not previously experienced it.)

³They are: the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.

⁴They were left there be to a test for the Israelites, to find out whether the Israelites would keep the Lord's commandments which he had given their forefathers through Moses.

⁵They lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

⁶The Israelites intermarried with them, marrying their daughters, giving their own daughters to their sons, and worshiped their gods.