Judges 3:1-6
Idolatry Leads to Servitude
1 (A)Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to test Israel by them (that is, all who had not (a)experienced any of the wars of Canaan;
2 only in order that the generations of the sons of Israel might (b)be taught war, (c)those who had not (d)experienced it formerly).
3 These nations are: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and (B)the Hivites who lived in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as (e)Lebo-hamath.
4 They were for (f)(C)testing Israel, to find out if they would (g)obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had commanded their fathers (h)through Moses.
5 (D)The sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;
6 and (E)they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
Footnotes:
a.
Judges 3:1: ['Lit ', known]
b.
Judges 3:2: ['Lit ', know, to teach them]
c.
Judges 3:2: ['Lit ', only]
d.
Judges 3:2: ['Lit ', known]
e.
Judges 3:3: ['Or ', the entrance of Hamath]
f.
Judges 3:4: ['Lit ', testing by them]
g.
Judges 3:4: ['Lit ', hear]
h.
Judges 3:4: ['Lit ', by the hand of]