Judges 3:4

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:19

For there must also be factions among you, so that the genuine may become apparent among you.

Judges 3:1

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

Judges 2:22

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

Deuteronomy 33:8

And of Levi he said, Thy Thummim and thy Urim are with thy holy man, whom thou proved at Massah, with whom thou strove at the waters of Meribah,

Deuteronomy 8:2

And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.

Exodus 15:25

And he cried to LORD. And LORD showed 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,