They were for [a](A)testing Israel, to find out if they would [b]obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had commanded their fathers [c]through Moses. (B)The sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and (C)they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 3:4 Lit testing by them
  2. Judges 3:4 Lit hear
  3. Judges 3:4 Lit by the hand of