Judg 3:1-6 | NASB2020 | STEP | Now these are the nations that the Lord left , to test Israel by them ( that is, all the Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan ;

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; 2 only 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). 3 These 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. 4 They 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; 6 and ^lthey took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.