- Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
- Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
- Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
- And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
- And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
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- 耶和華留下這幾族、為要試驗那不曾知道與迦南爭戰之事的以色列人.
- 好叫以色列的後代、又知道又學習未曾曉得的戰事。
- 所留下的、就是非利士的五個首領、和一切迦南人、西頓人、並住利巴嫩山的希未人、從巴力黑們山、直到哈馬口。
- 留下這幾族、為要試驗以色列人、知道他們肯聽從耶和華藉摩西吩咐他們列祖的誡命不肯。
- 以色列人竟住在迦南人、赫人、亞摩利人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人中間、
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