These nations are: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and (A)the Hivites who lived in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as [a]Lebo-hamath. They were for [b](B)testing Israel, to find out if they would [c]obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had commanded their fathers [d]through Moses. (C)The sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 3:3 Or the entrance of Hamath
  2. Judges 3:4 Lit testing by them
  3. Judges 3:4 Lit hear
  4. Judges 3:4 Lit by the hand of