Judges 2:22
In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”
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In Context
21I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
Cross References
Genesis 22:1Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
Deuteronomy 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
Deuteronomy 13:3you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Judges 3:4These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.
Job 23:10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
Proverbs 17:3A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
Matthew Henry on Judges 2:7-23
The Idolatry of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1425.) 6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. 7 And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord , that he did for Israel. 8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord , died, being a hundred and ten years old. 9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres,… Read the whole commentary →