Judges 3:1

Modern English Version

Now these are the nations that the Lord left to test those in Israel who had not experienced war in Canaan

Cross References

1 Kings 9:21

the descendants of those who were left in the land and whom the people of Israel were not able to utterly destroy, were conscripted by Solomon for slave labor to this day.

2 Chronicles 32:31

But the envoys came from the officials of Babylon who were sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been given in the land. God left him alone in order to test Hezekiah, to know what was in his heart.

Job 23:10

But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

Exodus 15:25

And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he had thrown it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them.

Proverbs 17:3

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

Jeremiah 6:27

I have set you as an assayer and fortress among My people that you may know and try their way.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring this one-third left into the fire, and will refine them as the refinement of silver, and will test them as the testing of gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, “They are My people”; and they will say, “The Lord is my God.”

John 2:24

But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew all men,

Deuteronomy 7:22

The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be able to destroy them all at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

Deuteronomy 8:16

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might prove you, to do good for you in the end.

Deuteronomy 8:2

You must remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

1 Peter 1:7

in order that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tried by fire, may be found to result in praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though some strange thing happened to you.

Revelation 2:23

I will put her children to death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the hearts and minds. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

Judges 1:1

After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the Lord, “Who should go up against the Canaanites first, in order to wage war against them?”

Judges 2:10

That entire generation passed away, and after them grew up a generation who did not know the Lord or the deeds that He had done for Israel.

Judges 2:23

So the Lord left those nations, not hurrying to drive them out; and He did not deliver them into the hand of Joshua.

Judges 3:2

(so that later generations of the Israelites who did not know war before might know it, to teach them how to fight):