Some Nations Remain in the Land

3 These are the nations that Yahweh left, to test Israel by them (that is, to test all those who ⌊had not experienced⌋[fn] any of the wars of Canaan, 2 in order that the generations of Israel would know war, to teach those ⌊who had not experienced it⌋[fn] before): 3 the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites,[fn] the Sidonians,[fn] and the Hivites[fn] living on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon up to Lebo-Hamath. 4 They were left for testing Israel, to know whether they would keep the commands of Yahweh that he commanded their ancestors[fn] through the hand of Moses. 5 And the ⌊Israelites⌋[fn] lived in the midst of the Canaanites,[fn] the Hittites,[fn] the Amorites,[fn] the Perizzites,[fn] the Hivites,[fn] and the Jebusites.[fn] 6 And they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.[fn]