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

therefore henceforth I will not cast out one man before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died -

The LORD thy God will put out these nations before thee a little and a little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

Prove

And think on all the ways which the LORD thy God led thee this forty years in the wilderness, for to humble thee and to prove thee, to wete what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.

But when the ambassadors of the lords of Babylon were sent to him to enquire of the wonder that chanced in the land, God left him: to tempt him, that all that was in his heart might be known.

But as for my way, he knoweth it: and tryeth me as the gold in the fire.

Like as silver is tried in the fire and gold in the furnace, even so doth the LORD prove the hearts.

"Thee have I set for a prover of my hard people, to seek out and to try their ways.

Among all things living, man hath the most deceitful and unsearchable heart. Who shall then know it?

And the same third part will I bring through the fire, and will cleanse them, as the silver is cleansed: Yea and try them, like as gold is tried. Then shall they call upon my name, and I will hear them: I will say, 'It is my people.' And they shall say, 'LORD, my God.'"

but Jesus put not himself in their hands, because he knew all men,

that your faith, once tried, being much more precious than gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto laud, glory, and honour, at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Dearly beloved, be not troubled in this heat, which now is come among you to try you, as though some strange thing had happened unto you:

And I will kill her children with death. And all the congregations shall know that I am he which searches the reins and hearts. And I will give unto everyone of you according to your works.

As had not

And even so, all that generation were put unto their fathers. And there arose another generation after them which neither knew the LORD, nor yet the works which he did unto Israel.

General references

and that the LORD may cast out all thine enemies before thee as he hath said.