1 Now these are the nations that Adonai left, to test all Israel who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan.
2 It was only in order that the generations of Bnei-Yisrael might learn from war, which they had not experienced before.
3 These nations included the five Philistine lords, and all the Canaanites, Zidonians and the Hivites living in the hill country of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
4 They were for testing Israel, to know whether they would obey the mitzvot of Adonai, which He had commanded their fathers by Moses’ hand.