Judges 3:1-6 ▼

1 Here's a list of nations that the LORD caused to remain in order to test Israel (that is, everyone who had not gained any battle experience in Canaan)

2 only so that successive Israeli generations, who had not known war previously, might come to know it by experience.

3 These nations included the five lords of the Philistines, all of the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.

4 They remained there to test Israel, to reveal if they would obey the commands of the LORD that he issued to their ancestors through Moses.

5 The Israelis continued to live among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,

6 taking their daughters as wives for themselves, giving their own daughters to their sons, and serving their gods.