Judges 3:4
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These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.
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In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”
These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
Concerning Levi he said: “Give Your Thummim to Levi and Your Urim to Your godly one, whom You tested at Massah and contested at the waters of Meribah.
And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,
And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.