- 耶和华留下这几族,为要试验那不曾知道与迦南争战之事的以色列人,
- 好叫以色列的后代又知道又学习未曾晓得的战事。
- 所留下的就是非利士的五个首领和一切迦南人,西顿人,并住利巴嫩山的希未人,从巴力黑们山直到哈马口。
- 留下这几族,为要试验以色列人,知道他们肯听从耶和华藉摩西吩咐他们列祖的诫命不肯。
- 以色列人竟住在迦南人,赫人,亚摩利人,比利洗人,希未人,耶布斯人中间,
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- 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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