2. so that afterward their sons might learn to contend with their enemies, and to have a willingness to do battle:
3. the five princes of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who were living on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-Hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath.
4. And he left them, so that by them he might test Israel, as to whether or not they would listen to the commandments of the Lord, which he instructed to their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5. And so, the sons of Israel lived in the midst of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
6. And they took their daughters as wives, and they gave their own daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.
7. And they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot their God, while serving the Baals and Ashtaroth.
8. And the Lord, having become angry with Israel, delivered them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim, the king of Mesopotamia, and they served him for eight years.