Judges 2:22

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.

Additional Resources

Other Translations

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 8:2 : 2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
  • Deut 8:16 : 16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good at your latter end;
  • Deut 13:3 : 3 You shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God tests you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
  • Judg 3:1-4 : 1 Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; 2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who had not known it before; 3 Namely, five rulers of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baalhermon to the entrance of Hamath. 4 And they were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of the LORD, which He commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
  • 2 Chr 32:31 : 31 However, concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire about the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to test him, that He might know all that was in his heart.
  • Job 23:10 : 10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
  • Ps 66:10 : 10 For you, O God, have proved us; you have tried us, as silver is tried.
  • Prov 17:3 : 3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts.
  • Mal 3:2-3 : 2 But who may endure the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap: 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them like gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.
  • Gen 22:1 : 1 And it happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, 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.

  • 4And they were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of the LORD, which He commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

  • Judg 2:20-21
    2 verses
    82%

    20And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because this people have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;

    21I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

  • Judg 3:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, 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 least those who had not known it before;

  • 23Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither did he deliver them into the hand of Joshua.

  • 8And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore out of the land that I gave their ancestors, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

  • Judg 2:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2And you shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars: but you have not obeyed my voice: why have you done this?

    3Therefore 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 to you.

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

  • 8And I will no longer remove the foot of Israel from the land which I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them according to the whole law and statutes and ordinances by the hand of Moses.

  • 8And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

  • 22The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them,

  • 23And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • 39Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

  • 1 Kgs 9:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6But if you or your children turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

    7Then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, I will cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

  • 22For if you diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him;

  • 23Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

  • 9When your fathers tested Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

  • 8This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

  • 19Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.

  • 1 Kgs 2:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3And keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself:

    4That the Lord may continue His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.

  • 27Let me pass through your land; I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn to the right hand nor to the left.

  • 2Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; test my mind and my heart.

  • 22Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

  • 5It is not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, that you go to possess their land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • 56Moreover, it shall come to pass, that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.

  • 30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.

  • 2And I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

  • 15For if you turn away from following him, he will again leave them in the wilderness, and you will have destroyed all this people.

  • 10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

  • 13And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it;

  • 20Then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for My name, I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.

  • 38To drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

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

  • 55He cast out the nations also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

  • 18But I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

  • 13Know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

  • 9Also I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness oppress them any more, as at the beginning,

  • 29(as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did unto me) until I cross over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us.

  • 23For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.

  • 45But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.

  • 36If those ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD, then the descendants of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.

  • 16Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good at your latter end;

  • 5Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?

  • 24So the children entered and possessed the land; You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them as they wished.

  • 9Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.

  • 58That he may incline our hearts to himself, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.