These are the nation that the lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had no experience of any war in Canaan. It was only that the generation of the people of Israel might know war, that he might teach war to such at least as had not known it before.

These are the nation, the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who dwelt on mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon as far as the entrance of Hamath.

They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandment of the lord, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

So the people of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and they took their daughters to themselves for wives, and their daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.

The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, forgetting the Lord their God, and serving the Baals and the Asheroth.

Therefore the anger of the lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia, and the people of Israel served the king for eight years.

But when the people of Israel cried to the lord, the lord raised a delivery for the people of Israel, who delivered them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. The spirit of the lord came upon him.

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