1 These are the nations the Lord allowed to remain, so that through them he might test Israel, all those who had not experienced any of the Canaanite wars—
2 to teach warfare to those generations of Israelites who had never experienced it:
3 the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountain region of the Lebanon between Baal-hermon and Lebo-hamath.
4 These served as a test for Israel, to know whether they would obey the commandments the Lord had enjoined on their ancestors through Moses.