The Lord Tests Israel

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Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

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only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it:

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the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

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They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

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The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

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and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

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The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

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