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.

[3:1]  ¹ tn Heb “did not know the wars of Canaan.”

[4:2]  ² tn Heb “the Lord sold them into the hands of.”

[4:2]  ³ tn Or “King Jabin of Hazor, a Canaanite ruler.”

[4:2]  ⁴ tn Or “Harosheth of the Pagan Nations”; cf. KJV “Harosheth of the Gentiles.”

[5:19]  ³ map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.

[5:19]  ⁴ tn The contrastive conjunction “but” is interpretive.