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^(C1)Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them (that is, all the Israelites who had not ^(F1)experienced any of the wars of Canaan;

only in order that the generations of the sons of Israel might ^(F1)be taught war, ^(F2)those who had not ^(F3)experienced it previously).

These nations are: the five governors of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians, and ^(C1)the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as ^(F1)Lebo-hamath.

They were left to ^(C1)test Israel by them, to find out if they would ^(F1)obey the commandments of the LORD, which He had commanded their fathers ^(F2)through Moses.

^(C1)The sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;

and ^(C1)they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.