20  And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel; and he said, Because this nation hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and hath not hearkened unto my voice, 21  I also will not henceforth dispossess from before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died; 22  that through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Jehovah to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. 23  Therefore Jehovah left those nations, without dispossessing them hastily, neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

Chapter 3

1  And these are the nations that Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, all that had not known all the wars of Canaan; 2  only that the generations of the children of Israel might know war by learning it, at the least those who before had known nothing thereof: 3  five lord ships of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwell on mount Lebanon; from mount Baal-Hermon unto the entering into Hamath. 4  And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would obey the commandments of Jehovah, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. 5  And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites: Hittites and Amorites and Perizzites and Hivites and Jebusites;