Judges 3:1

Now these are the nations which the Lord left to prove Israel by them ,.... Which are later mentioned, Judges 3:3 ,

even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan ; those that Joshua, and the people of Israel under him, had with the Canaanites, when they first entered the land and subdued it; being then not born, or so young as not to have knowledge of them, at least not able to bear arms at that time.