Judges 2:20–3:4

²⁰And the anger of Jehovah doth burn against Israel, and He saith, ‘Because that this nation have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened to My voice— ²¹I also continue not to dispossess any from before them of the nations which Joshua hath left when he dieth, ²²in order to try Israel by them, whether they are keeping the way of Jehovah, to go in it, as their fathers kept it or not.’ ²³And Jehovah leaveth these nations, so as not to dispossess them hastily, and did not give them into the hand of Joshua.

Chapter 3

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.