Judges 3:2-5

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.