Judges 3:1 meaning and explanation
These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
Judges 3:1, Berean Standard Bible
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The book of Judges opens with Israel settled in Canaan but incomplete in its conquest, and the narrator explains why: the LORD deliberately left surrounding nations in place. The generation addressed had not experienced the wars of Canaan, so these peoples became a test of covenant loyalty rather than a simple military problem.
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