07:002:017 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they
           went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto
           them:  they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers
           walked in, obeying the commandments of the lord; but they did
           not so.

07:002:018 And when the lord raised them up judges, then the lord was
           with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their
           enemies all the days of the judge:  for it repented the lord
           because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed
           them and vexed them.

07:002:019 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they
           returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in
           following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them;
           they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn
           way.

07:002:020 And the anger of the lord was hot against Israel; and he said,
           Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I
           commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;

07:002:021 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of
           the nations which Joshua left when he died: 

07:002:022 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep
           the way of the lord to walk therein, as their fathers did keep
           it, or not.

07:002:023 Therefore the lord left those nations, without driving them
           out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of
           Joshua.

07:003:001 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;

07:003:002 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might
           know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew
           nothing thereof;

07:003:003 Namely, 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.

07:003:004 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they
           would hearken unto the commandments of the lord, which he
           commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

07:003:005 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites,
           Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and
           Jebusites: 

07:003:006 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave
           their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

07:003:007 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the lord,
           and forgat the lord their God, and served Baalim and the
           groves.