Judges 2:22

WEB

²²that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep the LORD’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”

KJV

²²That 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.

BSB

²²In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”

FBV

²²This is in order to use them to test Israel to see if they will keep the way of the Lord and follow it as their forefathers did.”

Extra References

Deuteronomy 8:2

²You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 8:16

¹⁶who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

Deuteronomy 13:3

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

Proverbs 17:3

³The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts.

Genesis 22:1

¹After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

2 Chronicles 32:31

³¹However, concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him to test him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

Psalms 66:10

¹⁰For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Job 23:10

¹⁰But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Malachi 3:2-3

²“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap; ³and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to the LORD offerings in righteousness.

Judges 3:1-4

¹Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan; ²only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before: ³the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath. ⁴They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the LORD’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.