Idolatry Leads to Servitude

3 ^(A)Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them (that is, all the Israelites who had not ^[a]experienced any of the wars of Canaan; ² only in order that the generations of the sons of Israel might ^[b]be taught war, ^[c]those who had not ^[d]experienced it previously). ³ These nations are: the five governors of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians, and ^(B)the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as ^[e]Lebo-hamath. ⁴ They were left to ^(C)test Israel by them, to find out if they would ^[f]obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had commanded their fathers ^[g]through Moses. ^5 (D)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.