Judges 3:1

3:1 These were the nations the Lord permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel – he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites. ¹ 

Judges 4:2

4:2 The Lord turned them over to ²  King Jabin of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor. ³  The general of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim. ⁴ 

Judges 5:19

5:19 Kings came, they fought;

the kings of Canaan fought,

at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, ⁵ 

but ⁶  they took no silver as plunder.

¹ tn Heb “did not know the wars of Canaan.”

² tn Heb “the Lord sold them into the hands of.”

³ tn Or “King Jabin of Hazor, a Canaanite ruler.”

⁴ tn Or “Harosheth of the Pagan Nations”; cf. KJV “Harosheth of the Gentiles.”

³ map For location see Map1-D4; Map2-C1; Map4-C2; Map5-F2; Map7-B1.

⁴ tn The contrastive conjunction “but” is interpretive.