Judges 3:2-6

only in order that the generations of the sons of Israel might be taught war, those who had not experienced it previously).

These nations are: the five governors of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.

They were left to test Israel by them, to find out if they would obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had commanded their fathers through Moses.

The sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;

and they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.