Rashi, on Judg 3:1

“These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:”

“So that Yisroel would be tested through them. This was a different generation, ignorant of the miracles of the Canaanite wars, and not having witnessed the great deeds, they rebelled, and betrayed the Omnipresent.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.