Day 26 – Israel’s Disobedience

₆Joshua sent the people of Israel on their way, and each man went to take possession of his own share of the land.

₁So then, the LORD left some nations in the land to test the Israelites who had not been through the wars in Canaan. ₂He did this only in order to teach each generation of Israelites about war, especially those who had never been in battle before. ₃Those left in the land were the five Philistine cities, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the Lebanon Mountains from Mount Baal Hermon as far as Hamath Pass. ₄They were to be a test for Israel, to find out whether or not the Israelites would obey the commands that the LORD had given their ancestors through Moses. ₅And so the people of Israel settled down among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ₆They intermarried with them and worshipped their gods.