Judges 3:1-6 ▼

1 And these are the nations that YHWH left, that He might test by them Israel, all who had not known any of the wars of Canaan,

2 only so that the generations of the sons of Israel might be taught to know war, only those who formerly had not known it:

3 Five princes of the Philistines, and all the Canaanite, and the Sidonian, and the Hivite that dwelt in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.

4 And they were to test by them Israel, to know whether they would heed the commandments of YHWH, which He had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

5 And the sons of Israel dwelt among the Canaanite, the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

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