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Nations Remaining in the Land

Now these are the nations that the Lord left to test all those in Israel who had no experience of war in Canaan(A) (it was only for successive generations of Israelites, to teach war to those who had no experience of it): the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.(B) They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord that he commanded their ancestors by Moses.(C) So the Israelites lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.(D)

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The Lord Tests Israel

These are the nations the Lord left in order to test all those in Israel who had experienced none of the wars in Canaan.(A) This was to teach the future generations of the Israelites how to fight in battle, especially those who had not fought before. 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 from Mount Baal-hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath.[a] The Lord left them to test Israel, to determine if they would keep the Lord’s commands he had given their ancestors through Moses.(F) But they settled among the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshiped their gods.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:3 Or as Lebo-hamath