Judg 3:1-2 | ESV | STEP | Now these are the nations that the Lord left , to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan .

Judges 3:1-2

1 ^aNow these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan. 2 It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.