“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;”
These are the nations that the LORD left to test Israel, all those who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan; — The opening of chapter 3 returns to narrative proper after chapter 2's theological reflection. The phrase 'all those who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan' indicates that younger generations of Canaanites, born after the original conquest, would serve as Israel's testing-adversaries.
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