4. They were for testing Israel, to find out if they would obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had commanded their fathers through Moses.
5. The sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;
6. and they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.