Judges 3:4 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁴ And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ They were for the testing and proving of Israel to know whether Israel would listen and obey the commandments of the Lord, which He commanded their fathers by Moses.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And they were left, to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

Common English Bible

⁴ They were to be the test for Israel, to find out whether they would obey the LORD’s commands, which he had made to their ancestors through Moses.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And he left them, so that by them he might test Israel, as to whether or not they would listen to the commandments of the Lord, which he instructed to their fathers by the hand of Moses.

Judges 3:4 Cross References

Exodus 15:25

And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

1 Corinthians 11:19

For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

Deuteronomy 33:8

And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Mer´ibah;

Deuteronomy 8:2

And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

Judges 2:22

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.

Judges 3:1

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;