- 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 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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