Judges 3:2-4

Jubilee Bible 2000

² he left them only that the generations of the sons of Israel might know, and to teach them war, only for those that had known nothing before:

³ namely, five cardinals of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites that dwelt in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.

⁴ These, therefore, were left to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.