07:002:020 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
07:002:021 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
07:002:022 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
07:002:023 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
07:003:001 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;
07:003:002 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
07:003:003 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
07:003:004 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
07:003:005 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
07:003:006 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.