Judges 3:1-4 Now, these, are the nations which Yahweh left, that he might, by them, put Israel to the proof,––all who had not known any of the wars of Canaan;

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Now, these, are the nations which Yahweh left, that he might, by them, put Israel to the proof,––all who had not known any of the wars of Canaan; ² that the generations of the sons of Israel might certainly get to know, by being taught to make war,––such, at least, as aforetime knew nothing thereof:–– ³ five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Zidonians, and the Hivites dwelling in Mount Lebanon,––from Mount Baal–hermon as far as the entering in of Hamath. ⁴ So then [these] were [left], that, by them, he might put Israel to the proof,––to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of Yahweh which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.