Judges 3:1-6
Idolatry Leads to Servitude
1 aNow these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them (that is, all the Israelites who had not ▼▼Lit known
experienced any of the wars of Canaan; 2only in order that the generations of the sons of Israel might ▼▼Lit know, to teach them
be taught war, ▼▼Lit only those
those who had not ▼▼Lit known
experienced it previously). 3These nations are: the five governors of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians, and fthe Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as ▼▼Or the entrance of Hamath
Lebo-hamath. 4They were left to htest Israel by them, to find out if they would ▼▼Lit listen to
obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had commanded their fathers ▼▼Lit by the hand of
through Moses. 5 kThe sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; 6and lthey took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
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