Bible verse

Judges 3:1

These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
Judges 3:1 · BSB

Judges 3:1 in context

The verses around it, from Judges 3.

1 These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,

2 if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:

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

4 These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.

5 Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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Judges 3:1 in other translations

KJV

Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

ASV

Now these are the nations which Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

ERV

Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

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