1. Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
2. only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:
3. the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
4. They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the Lord’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.
5. The children of Israel lived amongst the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
6. They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.