Judges 3:1
Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had no experience of any war in Canaan;
Judges 2:21-22
I will not henceforth drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
Deuteronomy 7:22
And Jehovah thy God will cast out those nations from before thee by little and little; thou shalt not be able to make an end of them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.
Deuteronomy 8:16
who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
Judges 2:10
And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, who did not know the LORD or the work which he had done for Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:31
However in the matter of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
Job 23:10
But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.
Proverbs 17:3
The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but Jehovah trieth the hearts.
Jeremiah 6:27
I have set thee among my people as an assayer, a fortress, that thou mayest know and try their way.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?
Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
John 2:24
But Jesus himself did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men,
1 Peter 1:7
that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes, though it be proved by fire, be found to praise and glory and honour in the revelation of Jesus Christ:
1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, take not as strange the fire of persecution which has taken place amongst you for your trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you;
Revelation 2:23
and her children will I kill with death; and all the assemblies shall know that I am he that searches the reins and the hearts; and I will give to you each according to your works.