Judges 2:22

I will do this so that I may test Israel, whether or not they will keep the way of Yahweh and walk in it, as their fathers kept it.”

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In The King James Version

That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

In Context

21I will not, from now on, drive out from before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.

23That is why Yahweh left those nations and did not drive them out quickly and give them into the hand of Joshua.

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Cross References

Genesis 22:1It came about after these things that God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” Abraham said, “Here I am.”

Deuteronomy 8:2You will call to mind all the ways that Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order that he might humble you, that he might test you to know what was in your heart, as to whether you would keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 13:3do not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Judges 3:4These nations were left as a means by which Yahweh would test Israel, to confirm whether they would obey the commands he gave their ancestors through Moses.

Job 23:10But he knows the way that I take; 1 when he has tested me, I will come out like gold. 1

Proverbs 17:3The crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, 1 but Yahweh refines hearts. 1

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 →

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