Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to prove Israel by them, even as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
"Unto the entrance of Hamath"  (Judges 3:3).  "This `Gateway' was afterward known as Coele-Syria and is now called El-Bika.  It was often mentioned as the ideal northern boundary of Israel."[7]  We find a similar usage of this expression in  2 Kings 14:25.