Judges 2:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

In order to test Israel, whether or not they would take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their ancestors did,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

that through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.

American Standard Version (1901)

that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Jehovah to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

Common English Bible

As a test for Israel, to see whether they would carefully walk in the LORD’s ways just as their ancestors had done,

Catholic Public Domain Version

so that, by them, I may test Israel, as to whether or not they will keep the way of the Lord, and walk in it, just as their fathers kept it."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

That through them I may try Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord, and walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.

Judges 2:22 Cross References

Genesis 22:1

After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

2 Chronicles 32:31

So also in the matter of the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.

Job 23:10

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come out like gold.

Psalm 66:10

For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.

Exodus 15:25

He cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood; he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he put them to the test.

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.

Deuteronomy 13:3

you must not heed the words of those prophets or those who divine by dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you indeed love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.

Deuteronomy 8:16

He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you and in the end to do you good.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.

Judges 2:23

the Lord had left those nations, not driving them out at once, and had not handed them over to Joshua.