Judges 3:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now these are the nations that the Lord left to test all those in Israel who had no experience of war in Canaan

Cross References

1 Kings 9:21

their descendants who were still left in the land, whom the Israelites were unable to destroy completely—these Solomon conscripted for slave labor, and so they are to this day.

2 Chronicles 32:31

So also in the matter of the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.

Job 23:10

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come out like gold.

Exodus 15:25

He cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood; he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he put them to the test.

Proverbs 17:3

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

Jeremiah 6:27

I have made you a tester and a refiner among my people so that you may know and test their ways.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will put this third into the fire, refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. 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 our God.’ ”

John 2:24

But Jesus on his part would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

Deuteronomy 7:22

The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to make a quick end of them, otherwise the wild animals would become too numerous for you.

Deuteronomy 8:16

He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you and in the end to do you good.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Revelation 2:23

and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.

Judges 1:1

After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the Lord, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

Judges 2:10

Moreover, that whole generation was gathered to their ancestors, and another generation grew up after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.

Judges 2:23

the Lord had left those nations, not driving them out at once, and had not handed them over to Joshua.

Judges 3:2

(it was only for successive generations of Israelites, to teach war to those who had no experience of it):