Judges 3:1

These are the nations the LORD left to test Israel, those who had not experienced the wars of Canaan. It matters as naming God's purpose for the remaining peoples.

Cross-references · 15

• Judg 2:21–22I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
• Prov 17:3The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
• Deut 7:22And the LORD thy God will put 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.
• Deut 8:16Who 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;
• 1 Pet 4:12Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
• Judg 2:10And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
• Deut 8:2And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
• Jer 6:27I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
• John 2:24But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
• Job 23:10But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
• Jer 17:9–10The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
• Zech 13:9And 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.
• 1 Pet 1:7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
• Rev 2:23And 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 every one of you according to your works.
• 2 Chr 32:31Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire 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.

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