LITV(i)
20 And the anger of Jehovah glowed against Israel. And He said, Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to My voice,
21 I also from now on will not expel any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
22 so that by them I may test Israel, whether they are keeping the way of Jehovah, to go in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.
23 And Jehovah left those nations without expelling them quickly. And He did not deliver them into the hand of Joshua.
3 1 And these are the nations which Jehovah left in order to test Israel by them, all who did not know all the wars of Canaan;
2 only that the generations of the sons of Israel might know, to teach them war, only those who did not before know them:
3 five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that lived in Mount Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to the entering of Hamath.
4 And they existed to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commands of Jehovah, which He had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.