Judges 3:1-4 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;

ERV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ 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; ² only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof; ³ [namely], the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Zidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath. ⁴ And they were for 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.