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 from now on will not expel any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;

And Jehovah your God will put out those nations before you by little and little. You may not destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you.

Prove

And you shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

But, in regard to the ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon who sent to him to ask about the wonder that was done in the land, God left him in order to try him, to know all that was in his heart.

But He knows the way that I take; when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Jehovah tries the hearts.

I have set you up an assayer, an examiner among My people, that you may know and try their way.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

And I will bring the third part through 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.

But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all

so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you,

And I will kill her children with death. And all the churches will know that I am He who searches the reins and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works.

As had not

And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know Jehovah, nor even the works which He had done for Israel.

General references

to cast out all your enemies from before you, as Jehovah has spoken.