- 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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- Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them (that is, all who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan;
- only in order that the generations of the sons of Israel might be taught war, those who had not experienced it formerly).
- These nations are: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
- They were for testing Israel, to find out if they would obey the commandments of the LORD, which He had commanded their fathers through Moses.
- The sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;
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