Judges 3 Background Information with Maps and Images (Picture Study Bible - Judges) Free Bible Online

1 - 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;

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

3 - 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.

4 - 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.