1And these [are] the nations which Jehovah left, to try Israel by them, all who have not known all the wars of Canaan;
2(only for the sake of the generations of the sons of Israel`s knowing, to teach them war, only those who formerly have not known them) --
3five princes of the Philistines, and all the Canaanite, and the Zidonian, and the Hivite inhabiting mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-Hermon unto the entering in of Hamath;
4and they are to prove Israel by them, to know whether they obey the commands of Jehovah that He commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5And the sons of Israel have dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite, the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite,
6and take their daughters to them for wives, and their daughters have given to their sons, and they serve their gods;
7and the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and forget Jehovah their God, and serve the Baalim and the shrines.
