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These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:
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That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:
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The five princes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hevites that dwelt in Mount Libanus, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entering into Emath.
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And he left them, that he might try Israel by them, whether they would hear the commandments of the Lord, which he had commanded their fathers, by the hand of Moses, or not.
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So the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite:
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And they took their daughters to wives, and they gave their own daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.
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And they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot their God, and served Baalim and Astaroth.
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And the Lord being angry with Israel, delivered them into the hands of Chusan Rasathaim, king of Mesopotamia, and they served him eight years.