The Lord Tests Israel

3 These are the nations the Lord left in order to test Israel, since the Israelites had fought none of these in^[a] any of the wars with Canaan.^{(A) 2} This was to teach the future generations of the Israelites how to fight in battle, especially those who had not fought before.^{[b] 3} These nations included: the five rulers^(B) of the Philistines^(C) and all of the Canaanites, the Sidonians,^(D) and the Hivites^(E) who lived in the Lebanese mountains^[c] from Mount Baal-hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath.^{[d] 4} The Lord left them to test Israel, to determine if they would keep the Lord’s commands He had given their fathers through^[e] Moses.^{(F) 5} But they settled among the Canaanites, Hittites, 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.^(G)