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They were left to test Israel, so the Lord would know if his people would obey the commands he gave their ancestors through Moses.[a]

The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites;[b] they worshiped[c] their gods as well.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 3:4 tn Heb “to know if they would hear the commands of the Lord which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.”
  2. Judges 3:6 tn Heb “to their sons.”
  3. Judges 3:6 tn Or “served”; or “followed” (this term occurs in the following verse as well).