These nations included: the five rulers(A) of the Philistines(B) and all of the Canaanites, the Sidonians,(C) and the Hivites(D) who lived in the Lebanese mountains[a] from Mount Baal-hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath.[b] The Lord left them to test Israel, to determine if they would keep the Lord’s commands He had given their fathers through[c] Moses.(E) But they settled among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 3:3 LXX reads in Lebanon
  2. Judges 3:3 Or as Lebo-hamath
  3. Judges 3:4 Lit by the hand of

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