Judges 3:1

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Summary

Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

The nations

Judges 2:21

Deuteronomy 7:22

Prove

As had not

Judges 2:10

General references

Deuteronomy 6:19

Bible References

The nations

I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;

And Jehovah thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

Prove

And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.

Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto 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.

But he knoweth the way that I take; When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Jehovah trieth the hearts.

I have made thee a trier and a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

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 hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

But Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men,

that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you:

And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto each one of you according to your works.

As had not

And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, that knew not Jehovah, nor yet the work which he had wrought for Israel.

General references

to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.