Judges 3:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאֵ֤לֶּה הַגּוֹיִם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִנִּ֣יחַ יְהוָ֔ה לְנַסּ֥וֹת בָּ֖ם אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אֵ֚ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא־יָדְע֔וּ אֵ֖ת כָּל־מִלְחֲמ֥וֹת כְּנָֽעַן׃

Transliteration

And ʾēlleh the gôyim which hinnîaḥ YHWH to nassôt with-them ʾet-yiśrāʾēl ʾēt all-which not-yādĕʿû ʾēt all-milḥămôt kĕnāʿan.

Grammar Details

*wĕ*: conjunction - and, connecting to previous narrative
*ʾēlleh*: demonstrative pronoun, plural - these
*ha-gôyim*: definite noun, masculine plural - the nations/gentiles
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who/which
*hinnîaḥ*: hiphil perfect, 3rd masculine singular - caused to rest/leave/remain
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
*lĕnassôt*: preposition + piel infinitive construct - to test/try
*bām*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix - with/by them
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*ʾēt*: direct object marker, emphatic particle
*kol*: construct noun - all of/every
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*yādĕʿû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they knew
*milḥămôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - wars of
*kĕnāʿan*: proper noun - Canaan

Word Meanings

*hinnîaḥ*: left/allowed to remain/let stay
*nassôt*: test/try/prove
*yādĕʿû*: knew/experienced/were familiar with

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Referenced Verses

Judg 2:21-22 : 21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died: 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.
2 Chr 32:31 : 31 Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
Job 23:10 : 10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Prov 17:3 : 3 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Jer 6:27 : 27 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
Jer 17:9-9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Zech 13:9 : 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: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
John 2:24 : 24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
1 Pet 1:7 : 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
1 Pet 4:12 : 12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
Rev 2:23 : 23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
Deut 7:22 : 22 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Deut 8:2 : 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Deut 8:16 : 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
Judg 2:10 : 10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Judg 3:2-5
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2Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
3Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
4And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
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Judg 2:21-23
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21I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
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.
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2 Chr 8:7
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Deut 7:1
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1When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
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Josh 17:13
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Deut 7:17
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Deut 4:38
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Josh 13:13
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Josh 24:11
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Deut 1:39
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Deut 8:16
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