Five lords of the Philistines See Joshua 13:2-3, and Judges 1:18, where it appears that three of them had been, in some measure, subdued, but had now recovered their country again, in consequence of the slothful conduct of the Israelites. All the Canaanites Properly so called, who were very numerous, and dispersed through several parts of the land, whence they gave denomination to all the rest of the people. Sidonians The people living near Zidon, and subject to its jurisdiction. Baal-hermon Which was the eastern part about Lebanon.
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Judges 3:3
3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.