Judges 3:1-6 ▼

1 These are the nations the LORD left in order to test all those in Israel who had experienced none of the wars in Canaan.

2 This was to teach the future generations of the Israelites how to fight in battle, especially those who had not fought before.

3 These nations included the five rulers of the Philistines and all of the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the Lebanese mountains from Mount Baal-hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath.

4 The LORD left them to test Israel, to determine if they would keep the LORD’s commands he had given their ancestors through Moses.

5 But they settled among the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

6 The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshiped their gods.