SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:5
Y como los hijos de Israel habitaban entre los cananeos, heteos, amorreos, ferezeos, heveos, y jebuseos,
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 5. And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites , etc.] As if they had been only sojourners with them, and not conquerors of them; and dwelt by sufferance, and not as proprietors and owners; such were their sloth and indolence, and such the advantage the inhabitants of the land got over them through it, and through their compliances with them; and this was the case not only of one sort of them, the Canaanites, but of the rest: the Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites ; who all had cities in the several parts of the land, with whom the children of Israel were mixed, and with whom they were permitted to dwell.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - As the Israelites were a type of the church on earth, they were not to be idle and slothful. The Lord was pleased to try them by the remain of the devoted nations they spared. Temptations and trials detect the wickedness of the hearts of sinners; and strengthen he graces of believers in their daily conflict with Satan, sin, and this evil world They must live in this world, but they are not of it, and are forbidde to conform to it. This marks the difference between the followers of Christ and mere professors. The friendship of the world is more fata than its enmity; the latter can only kill the body, but the forme murders many precious souls.
Original Hebrew
ובני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 ישׁבו 3427 בקרב 7130 הכנעני 3669 החתי 2850 והאמרי 567 והפרזי 6522 והחוי 2340 והיבוסי׃ 2983
