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;
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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;
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only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:
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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.
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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.
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