Judges 3:1
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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;

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Judges 2:21, 22 I also will not from now on drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died...

Deuteronomy 7:22 And the LORD your God will put out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once...

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Deuteronomy 8:2, 16 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you...

2 Chronicles 32:31 However, in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon...

Job 23:10 But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Proverbs 17:3 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.

Jeremiah 6:27 I have set you for a tower and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.

Jeremiah 17:9, 10 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it...

Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried...

John 2:24 But Jesus did not commit himself to them, because he knew all men,

1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire...

1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you:

Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searches the reins and hearts...

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Judges 2:10 And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD...

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
These are the nations the LORD left in order to test Israel, since the Israelites had fought none of these in any of the wars with Canaan.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them (that is, all who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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;

International Standard Version (©2012)
Here's a list of nations that the LORD caused to remain in order to test Israel (that is, everyone who had not gained any battle experience in Canaan)

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

American 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;

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:

Darby Bible Translation
Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had no experience of any war in Canaan;

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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;

World English Bible
Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to prove Israel by them, even as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

Young's Literal Translation
And these are the nations which Jehovah left, to try Israel by them, all who have not known all the wars of Canaan;

Exodus 15:25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,


Judges 1:1 Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
Judges 2:21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
Judges 2:22 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.
Judges 2:23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
Judges 3:2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
1 Kings 9:21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.

These are the nations the LORD left in order to test Israel, since the Israelites had fought none of these in any of the wars with Canaan. —HCSB

Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them ([that is], all who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan; —NASB

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; —KJV


Canaan Experience Experienced Israelites Kept Nations Prove Purpose Test Testing Try War Wars

Canaan Experience Experienced Israel Israelites Kept Nations Prove Purpose Test Testing Try War Wars

Canaan Experience Experienced Israel Israelites Kept Nations Prove Purpose Test Testing Try War Wars
Judges Chapter 3 Verse 1

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