--- title: "Nations Left to Test Israel" description: "These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not..." image: "" book: "Judges" bookId: "JDG" testament: "old" startChapter: 3 startVerse: 1 endChapter: 3 endVerse: 6 coversChapters: [3] aiTitle: "Nations Left to Test Israel" aiDescription: "These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not..." hasAiStory: true location: "Canaan" persons: ["God","Israelites","Moses","Philistines","Canaanites","Sidonians","Hivites","Hittites","Amorites","Perizzites","Jebusites","Othniel","Ehud","Shamgar"] hashtags: ["idolatry","judgment","war","faith"] genre: "history" readingTime: 1 type: "adaptive" slug: "JDG/nations-left-to-test-israel" canonicalId: "JDG.3.1-3.6" chronologicalOrder: 397 relatedSlugs: [] prevSlug: "JDG/judges-raised-up" nextSlug: "JDG/othniel" --- These are the nations that the [LORD](/persons/god) left to test all the [Israelites](/persons/israelites) who had not known any of the wars in Canaan, if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly: the five rulers of the [Philistines](/persons/philistines), all the [Canaanites](/persons/canaanites), the [Sidonians](/persons/sidonians), and the [Hivites](/persons/hivites) who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath. These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through [Moses](/persons/moses). Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, [Hittites](/persons/hittites), [Amorites](/persons/amorites), [Perizzites](/persons/perizzites), Hivites, and [Jebusites](/persons/jebusites). And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

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