The Nations Remaining in the Land (Judges 3)

        That is, all who had not known any of the wars in Canaan.  (this was only so that the generations of the children of Israel might be taught to know war, at least those who had not formerly known it).  Namely, five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who dwelt in Mount Lebanon,from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.  And they were left, that He might test Israel by them, to know whether they would obey the commandmentsof the Lord,,.......................