Judges 3:1-6

¹And these are the nations which the Lord left to prove Israel with them, all that had not known the wars of Canaan.

²Only for the sake of the generations of Israel, to teach them war, only the men before them knew them not.

³The five lordships of the Philistines, and every Canaanite, and the Sidonian, and the Hivite who dwelt in Lebanon from the mount of Hermon to Lebo-hamath.

⁴And this was done in order to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would obey the commands of the Lord, which he charged their fathers by the hand of Moses.

⁵And the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

⁶And they took their daughters for wives to themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.