Judges 3:1

Now Yahweh left these nations to test Israel, namely everyone in Israel who had not experienced any of the wars fought in Canaan.

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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 this to teach warfare to the new generation of the Israelites who had not known it before.)

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:22Yahweh your God will drive out those nations before you little by little. You will not defeat them all at once, or the wild animals would become very many around you.

Deuteronomy 8:16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors had never known, so that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end,

Judges 2:21I will not, from now on, drive out from before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.

2 Chronicles 32:31However, in the matter of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to ask questions of those who knew, about the miraculous sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him, and to know all that was in his heart.

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

Jeremiah 17:9The heart is more deceitful than anything else. It is sick; who can understand it? 1

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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