Judges 3:1-6

Legacy Standard Bible

Yahweh Tests Israel

3 ^(A)Now these are the nations which Yahweh allowed to remain, to test Israel by them (that is, all who had not known any of the wars of Canaan; ^2 [a]however, God tested them in order that the generations of the sons of Israel would know war, by learning war, ^[b]especially those who had not known it formerly). ³ These nations are: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and ^(B)the Hivites who lived in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as ^[c]Lebo-hamath. ⁴ And they were for ^[d](C)testing Israel, to know if they would ^[e]obey the commandments of Yahweh, which He had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. ^5 (D)Now the sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; ⁶ and ^(E)they took their daughters for themselves as wives and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.