Judges 2:22

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the LORD and walk in it as their ancestors did.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

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

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    that by them I may prove{H5254} Israel,{H3478} whether they will keep{H8104} the way{H1870} of Jehovah{H3068} to walk{H3212} therein, as their fathers{H1} did keep{H8104} it, or not.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    That through them I may prove{H5254}{(H8763)} Israel{H3478}, whether they will keep{H8104}{(H8802)} the way{H1870} of the LORD{H3068} to walk{H3212}{(H8800)} therein, as their fathers{H1} did keep{H8104}{(H8804)} it, or not.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    that by them I maye proue Israel, whether they wil kepe the waye of the LORDE, to walke therin, as their fathers dyd, or not.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    That through them I may proue Israel, whether they wil keepe the way of the Lorde, to walke therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    That through them I may proue Israel, whether they wil kepe the way of the Lorde, and walke therin as their fathers dyd, or not.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    in order to try Israel by them, whether they are keeping the way of Jehovah, to go in it, as their fathers kept `it' or not.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    In order to put Israel to the test, and see if they will keep the way of the Lord, walking in it as their fathers did, or not.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    in order to test Israel. I want to see whether or not the people will carefully walk in the path marked out by the LORD, as their ancestors were careful to do.”

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 8:2 : 2 Remember the entire journey the Lord your God has led you on these forty years in the wilderness, to humble and test you in order to know what is in your heart—whether or not you would keep His commandments.
  • Deut 8:16 : 16 He fed you manna in the wilderness, which your fathers had never known, to humble and test you so that He might do good for you in the end.
  • Deut 13:3 : 3 and the sign or wonder he spoke to you about comes true, saying, 'Let us follow other gods, whom you have not known, and let us worship them,'
  • Judg 3:1-4 : 1 These are the nations that the Lord left in order to test Israel—those who had not experienced the wars of Canaan. 2 He did this to teach subsequent generations of the Israelites—those who had not known previous wars—how to fight. 3 The nations included the 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 the entrance of Hamath. 4 They were left to test Israel in order to know whether they would obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had given to their ancestors through Moses.
  • 2 Chr 32:31 : 31 However, regarding the envoys sent by the rulers of Babylon to inquire about the miraculous sign that had occurred in the land, God left Hezekiah to test him and to know what was in his heart.
  • Job 23:10 : 10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
  • Ps 66:10 : 10 For You, God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver is refined.
  • Prov 17:3 : 3 A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the Lord tests hearts.
  • Mal 3:2-3 : 2 3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, purifying the Levites and refining them like gold and silver, so they may bring offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
  • Gen 22:1 : 1 After these events, God tested Abraham and said to him, 'Abraham!' And he replied, 'Here I am.'

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Judg 3:4
    83%

    4 They were left to test Israel in order to know whether they would obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had given to their ancestors through Moses.

  • Judg 2:20-21
    2 verses
    82%

    20 Therefore, the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and he said, 'Because this nation has violated the covenant I commanded their ancestors and has not listened to my voice,'

    21 'I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.'

  • Judg 3:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1 These are the nations that the Lord left in order to test Israel—those who had not experienced the wars of Canaan.

    2 He did this to teach subsequent generations of the Israelites—those who had not known previous wars—how to fight.

  • Judg 2:23
    78%

    23 The LORD allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive them out immediately by giving them into Joshua’s hand.

  • 2 Kgs 21:8
    74%

    8 I will no longer make Israel's feet wander from the land I gave their fathers, if only they will carefully do everything I commanded them and keep the whole law that My servant Moses gave them.'

  • Judg 2:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 But you must not make a covenant with the people who live in this land. Instead, you are to break down their altars. Yet you have not obeyed me. What is this that you have done?'

    3 So now I say, 'I will not drive them out before you. They will become thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.'

  • Deut 8:2
    71%

    2 Remember the entire journey the Lord your God has led you on these forty years in the wilderness, to humble and test you in order to know what is in your heart—whether or not you would keep His commandments.

  • 2 Chr 33:8
    71%

    8 I will not again make the feet of the Israelites wander from the land I gave to their ancestors, if they are careful to do everything I commanded them concerning the whole Law, the statutes, and the judgments given through Moses.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    71%

    8 They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.

  • 2 Kgs 17:22
    70%

    22 The Israelites persisted in all the sins Jeroboam committed and did not turn away from them.

  • Lev 20:23
    69%

    23 Do not follow the customs of the nations that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

  • Deut 1:39
    69%

    39 And the little ones you said would be taken as plunder—your children who do not yet know good from evil—they will enter the land. I will give it to them, and they will take possession of it.

  • 1 Kgs 9:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6 'But if you or your descendants turn away from Me and do not keep My commands and statutes that I have given you, and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them,

    7 then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. Israel will then become a proverb and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

  • Deut 11:22
    69%

    22 For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

  • Num 14:23
    69%

    23 not one of them will see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has spurned me will see it.

  • Heb 3:9
    69%

    9 where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw my works.

  • Num 32:8
    69%

    8 This is what your ancestors did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land.

  • 2 Kgs 17:19
    69%

    19 But even Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God. They followed the practices of Israel as the Israelites had done.

  • 1 Kgs 2:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3 Obey the charge of the LORD your God by walking in His ways, keeping His statutes, commandments, judgments, and testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses. In this way, you will prosper in all you do and wherever you turn.

    4 And you will ensure that the LORD fulfills His promise to me, saying, 'If your sons are careful to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.'

  • Deut 2:27
    69%

    27 'Let me pass through your land. I will travel only on the road and will turn neither to the right nor to the left.

  • Ps 26:2
    69%

    2 Examine me, Lord, and test me; refine my inner thoughts and my heart.

  • Ezek 20:22
    69%

    22 But I withdrew my hand and acted for the sake of my name, to keep it from being profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

  • Deut 9:5
    69%

    5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are entering to take possession of their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God is driving them out before you, and to fulfill the promise the LORD swore to your ancestors—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Num 33:56
    68%

    56 And what I had planned to do to them, I will do to you.

  • Exod 23:30
    68%

    30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you are fruitful and take possession of the land.

  • Exod 33:2
    68%

    2 I will send an angel ahead of you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

  • Num 32:15
    68%

    15 If you turn away from following Him, He will abandon them again in the wilderness, and you will bring destruction on all these people."

  • Amos 2:10
    68%

    10 'It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorites.'

  • Jer 9:13
    68%

    13 Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and went after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    68%

    20 then I will uproot you from My land that I have given you, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

  • Deut 4:38
    68%

    38 He drove out nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you into their land and to give it to you as an inheritance, as it is today.

  • 1 Kgs 6:13
    68%

    13 And I will dwell among the people of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.

  • Ps 78:55
    68%

    55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance with a measuring line; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

  • Ezek 20:18
    68%

    18 I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not follow the statutes of your fathers, do not observe their ordinances, and do not defile yourselves with their idols.

  • Josh 23:13
    68%

    13 then you can be certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land the LORD your God has given you.

  • 1 Chr 17:9
    68%

    9 I will provide a place for my people Israel and plant them so they can live in their own land and not be disturbed again. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning,

  • Deut 2:29
    68%

    29 as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me—until I cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.'

  • Exod 23:23
    68%

    23 My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.

  • Lev 26:45
    68%

    45 For their sake, I will remember the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God: I am the LORD.

  • Jer 31:36
    68%

    36 Only if these decrees vanish from my sight, declares the LORD, will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me.

  • Deut 8:16
    68%

    16 He fed you manna in the wilderness, which your fathers had never known, to humble and test you so that He might do good for you in the end.

  • Jer 2:5
    68%

    5 This is what the LORD says: ‘What fault did your ancestors find in me that they strayed so far from me? They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

  • Neh 9:24
    68%

    24 Their descendants went in and took possession of the land. You subdued the inhabitants of the land—the Canaanites—before them and handed their kings and the peoples of the land over to them, to do with as they desired.

  • Heb 8:9
    67%

    9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and so I turned away from them, declares the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 8:58
    67%

    58 May He turn our hearts to Him, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commands, statutes, and judgments, which He gave to our ancestors.