Judges 3:1

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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:

Cross References

Proverbs 17:3

As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.

Deuteronomy 7:22

He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little and by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy them altogether: lest perhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee.

Jeremiah 6:27

I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt know, and prove their way.

Job 23:10

But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire.

Judges 2:10

And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord, and the works which he had done for Israel.

Deuteronomy 8:16

And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had mercy on thee.

Deuteronomy 8:2

And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee: and that the things that were in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.

Revelation 2:23

And I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works. But to you I say,

1 Peter 4:12

Dearly beloved, think not strange the burning heat which is to try you, as if some new thing happened to you;

1 Peter 1:7

That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

John 2:24

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

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my people: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.

2 Chronicles 32:31

But yet in the embassy of the princes of Babylon, that were sent to him, to inquire of the wonder that had happened upon the earth, God left him that he might be tempted, and all things might be made known that were in his heart.

Exodus 15:25

But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him,

Judges 1:1

After the death of Josue, the children of Israel consulted the Lord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, and shall be the leader of the war?

Judges 2:23

The Lord therefore left all these nations, and would not quickly destroy them neither did he deliver them into the hands of Josue.

Judges 3:2

That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war.

1 Kings 9:21

Their children, that were left in the land, to wit, such as the children of Israel had not been able to destroy, Solomon made tributary unto this day.