ISV(i)
1 Unconquered Canaanite NationsHere’s a list of nations that the LORD caused to remain in order to test Israel (that is, everyone who had not gained any battle experience in Canaan)
2 only so that successive Israeli generations, who had not known war previously, might come to know it by experience.
3 These nations included the five lords of the Philistines, all of the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
4 They remained there to test Israel, to reveal if they would obey the commands of the LORD that he issued to their ancestors through Moses.