Judges 3:2-4

International Standard Version

² only so that successive Israeli generations, who had not known war previously, might come to know it by experience. ³ These nations included^[a] the five lords of the Philistines, all of the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath. ⁴ They remained there to test Israel, to reveal if they would obey the commands of the Lord that he issued to their ancestors through Moses.