Judges 3:1

The following are the nations the Lord left and used to test all those Israelites who had not known what it was like to be part of any of the wars in Canaan.

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In The King James Version

Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

In Context

2(He did so to teach warfare to the later generations of Israel, particularly to those who had not previously experienced it.)

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:22The Lord your God will drive out these nations ahead of you in stages. You won't be able to get rid of them all at the same time, or you'd be overwhelmed by wild animals.

Deuteronomy 8:16He fed you in the desert with manna that your forefathers had never known, humbling you and testing you, so that eventually you would do well in the future.

Judges 2:21from now on I won't drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.

2 Chronicles 32:31But when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon came to him to ask about the miraculous sign that had happened in the country, God left him to test him, so he could know Hezekiah's true thinking.

Proverbs 17:3A crucible tests silver, and a furnace tests gold, but the Lord tests the attitude of mind.

Jeremiah 17:9The mind is more deceptive than anything else—it's incurably sick! Who can possibly understand it?

Matthew Henry on Judges 3:1

In this chapter, I. A general account of Israel's enemies is premised, and of the mischief they did them, ver. 1-7 . II. A particular account of the brave exploits done by the first three of the judges. 1. Othniel, whom God raised up to fight Israel's battles, and plead their cause against the king of Mesopotamia, ver. 8-11 . 2. Ehud, who was employed in rescuing Israel out of the hands of the Moabites, and did it by stabbing the king of Moab, ver. 12-30 . 3. Shamgar, who signalized himself in an encounter with… Read the whole commentary →

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