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Judges 3:1 KJV
Judges · chapter 3 · verse 1
Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;Judges 3:1 · King James Version
Judges 3:1 in context
1Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
2Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
3Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- nationsgôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- provenâçâhto testH5254 →
- knownyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- leftyânachto depositH3240 →
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We are here told what remained of the old inhabitants of Canaan. 1. There were some of them that kept together in united bodies, unbroken (Jdg 3:3): The five lords of the Philistines, namely, Ashdod, Gaza, Askelon, Gath, and Ekron, Sa1 6:17.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7