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 no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;
• Prov 17:3The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.
• Deut 7:22Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
• Deut 8:16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
• 1 Pet 4:12Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
• Judg 2:10After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them, who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.
• Deut 8:2You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
• Jer 6:27“I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.
• John 2:24But Jesus didn’t trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
• Job 23:10But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.
• Jer 17:9–10The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
• Zech 13:9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
• 1 Pet 1:7that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• Rev 2:23I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
• 2 Chr 32:31However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire 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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