Judges 3:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹ Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ NOW THESE are the nations which the Lord left to prove Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not previously experienced war in Canaan;

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Now these are the nations which Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

Common English Bible

¹ These are the nations that the LORD left to test all those Israelites who had no firsthand knowledge of the wars of Canaan.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ These are the nations which the Lord left, so that by them he might instruct Israel and all who had not known the wars of the Canaanites,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:

Judges 3:1 Cross References

1 Kings 9:21

their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants, unto this day.

2 Chronicles 32:31

Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

Job 23:10

But he knoweth the way that I take; When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Exodus 15:25

And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them;

Proverbs 17:3

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: But the LORD trieth the hearts.

Jeremiah 6:27

I have made thee a tower and a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way.

Zechariah 13:9

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 hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

John 2:24

But Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men,

Deuteronomy 7:22

And the LORD thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

Deuteronomy 8:16

who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end:

Deuteronomy 8:2

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

1 Peter 1:7

that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, might be found unto praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you:

Revelation 2:23

And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto each one of you according to your works.

Judges 1:1

And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel asked of the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?

Judges 2:10

And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the work which he had wrought for Israel.

Judges 2:23

So the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

Judges 3:2

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof;