Judg 3:1-7 | 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 3:1-7

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. 3 These are the nations: ^bthe 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. 4 They were for ^cthe testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. 5 So the people of Israel lived ^damong the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 6 ^eAnd their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.

Othniel

7 ^fAnd the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and ^gthe Asheroth.