^{1 Ref} Now these are the nations which Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, even as many `of Israel' as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

^{2 Ref} only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:

^{3 Ref} `namely', the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entrance of Hamath.

^{4 Ref} And they were `left', to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

^{5 Ref} And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

^{6 Ref} and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.