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The nations left to test Israel
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Judges 3:1-4

The nations left to test Israel

Othniel, Ehud, and Shamgar · Judges 3

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1These are the nations that Yahweh left to test Israel by them, that is, all who had not known any of the wars of Canaan:

2only so that the generations of the sons of Israel might know, to teach them war—only those who formerly had not known it.

3the five rulers of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the hill country of Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.

4And they were there to test Israel, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of Yahweh, which he commanded their fathers through Moses.

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