Judges 3:1-6

¹Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

²only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:

³the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

⁴They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the LORD’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

⁵The children of Israel lived amongst the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

⁶They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.