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 continue not to dispossess any from before them of the nations which Joshua hath left when he dieth,

And Jehovah thy God hath cast out these nations from thy presence little by little, (thou art not able to consume them hastily, lest the beast of the field multiply against thee),

Prove

and thou hast remembered all the way which Jehovah thy God hath caused thee to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble thee to try thee, to know that which is in thy heart, whether thou dost keep His commands or not.

and so with the ambassadors of the heads of Babylon, those sending unto him to inquire of the wonder that hath been in the land, God hath left him to try him, to know all in his heart,

For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me -- as gold I go forth.

A refining pot is for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts is Jehovah.

A watch-tower I have given thee, Among My people a fortress, And thou knowest, and hast tried their way.

Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable -- who doth know it?

And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, 'My people it is,' And it saith, 'Jehovah is my God!'

and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all men,

that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you -- to each -- according to your works.

As had not

and also all that generation have been gathered unto their fathers, and another generation riseth after them who have not known Jehovah, and even the work which He hath done to Israel.

General references

to drive away all thine enemies from thy presence, as Jehovah hath spoken.