2 if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly: 3 the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath. 4 These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.
Judges 3:2–4
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Judges 2:22–23
22 In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.” 23 That is why the LORD had left those nations in place and had not driven them out immediately by delivering them into the hand of Joshua.
2 Chronicles 8:6–8
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1 Kings 9:19–21
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Psalms 106:33–35
33 For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips. 34 They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them, 35 but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
Genesis 15:20–21
20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
Joshua 11:19–21
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Joshua 11:2–4
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1 Chronicles 1:13–15
13 And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, 14 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 15 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
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