1. Judges 3:5 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What reveals the scope of Israel’s failure?

Judges 3:5 (ESV)

5 So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

The listing of six of the Canaanite tribes among which Israel lived reveals the extent of their failure. Of the nations listed in Deuteronomy 7:1, only the Girgashites are absent. All this is to say that wherever the Israelites went, they failed the test.1