Judges 3:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And 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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַֽיִּהְי֕וּ לְנַסּ֥וֹת בָּ֖ם אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לָדַ֗עַת הֲיִשְׁמְעוּ֙ אֶת־מִצְוֺ֣ת יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֥ה אֶת־אֲבוֹתָ֖ם בְּיַד־מֹשֶֽׁה׃

Transliteration

And-wayyihyû to-nassôt with-them ʾet-yiśrāʾēl, to-lādaʿat whether-yišmĕʿû ʾet-miṣwōt YHWH which-ṣiwwāh ʾet-ʾăbôtām by-hand-of-mōšeh.

Grammar Details

*wa*: conjunction + consecutive - and
*yihyû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they were/became
*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
*lādaʿat*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to know
*hă*: interrogative particle - whether
*yišmĕʿû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they would hear/obey
*miṣwōt*: noun, feminine plural construct - commandments of
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which
*ṣiwwāh*: piel perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he commanded
*ʾăbôtām*: noun, masculine plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their fathers
*bĕyad*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct - by hand of/through
*mōšeh*: proper noun - Moses

Word Meanings

*wayyihyû*: and they were/became/existed
*nassôt*: test/try/prove
*yišmĕʿû*: hear/listen to/obey
*bĕyad*: by means of/through/by agency of

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Referenced Verses

Judg 2:22 : 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.
Judg 3:1 : 1 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;
1 Cor 11:19 : 19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Exod 15:25 : 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,
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 33:8 : 8 And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

Similar Verses (AI)

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Judg 2:22-23
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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.
23Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
Judg 3:1-3
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1Now 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;
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.
Judg 3:5
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5And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
Deut 8:2
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2And 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 4:34
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34Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Josh 11:20
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20For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Deut 8:16
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16Who 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 2:2-3
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2And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
3Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
Exod 34:11
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11Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Heb 3:9
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9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Judg 2:20
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20And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
Num 13:3
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3And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
Judg 10:6
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2 Kgs 17:7-8
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7For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
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Josh 11:3
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1 Sam 12:9
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Deut 4:38
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Deut 4:44
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Num 32:7-8
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7And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
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Josh 5:6
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6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Deut 31:5
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5And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
Exod 3:17
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17And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
Neh 9:24
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Judg 1:28
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28And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.
Deut 7:1
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Num 1:54
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Judg 2:15
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15Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
Num 5:4
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4And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Deut 6:3
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Exod 3:8
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8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Exod 33:2
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2And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Deut 20:18
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18That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
Judg 13:1
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1And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
Deut 4:14
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Deut 1:33
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Josh 23:13
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Judg 6:1
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1And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Acts 13:18
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18And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
Judg 2:12
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12And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.