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Judges 2:22
Judges 2:22 is verse 22 of Judges chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”
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.
World English Bible
that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”
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Judges 2:20–23 · Berean Standard Bible
20 So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,
21 I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
22 In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”
23 That is why the LORD had left those nations in place and had not driven them out immediately by delivering them into the hand of Joshua.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Judges 3:1These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
Judges 3:2if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:
Judges 3:3the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.
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.
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 8:16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
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.
2 Chronicles 32:31And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.
Job 23:10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
Psalms 66:10For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
Proverbs 17:3A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
Malachi 3:2But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
Malachi 3:3And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.