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Saturday, September 13th, 2025
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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士师记 2:22

為要藉著他們試驗以色列人,看他們肯不肯謹守遵行耶和華的道路,像他們的列祖一樣謹守。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Baal;   Israel;   The Topic Concordance - Covenant;   Disobedience;   Proof;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Canaanites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Angel of the Lord;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gentile;   Judges, book of;   Testing;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - God;   Nations, the;   Time;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Zion;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Persecution in the Bible;   Temptation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Judges (1);   Temptation;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
为 要 藉 此 试 验 以 色 列 人 , 看 他 们 肯 照 他 们 列 祖 谨 守 遵 行 我 的 道 不 肯 。

Contextual Overview

6 Then Joshua sent the people back to their land. 7 The people served the Lord during the lifetime of Joshua and during the lifetimes of the elders who lived after Joshua and who had seen what great things the Lord had done for Israel. 8 Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord , died at the age of one hundred ten. 9 They buried him in his own land at Timnath Serah in the mountains of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. 10 After those people had died, their children grew up and did not know the Lord or what he had done for Israel. 11 So they did what the Lord said was wrong, and they worshiped the Baal idols. 12 They quit following the Lord , the God of their ancestors who had brought them out of Egypt. They began to worship the gods of the people who lived around them, and that made the Lord angry. 13 The Israelites quit following the Lord and worshiped Baal and Ashtoreth. 14 The Lord was angry with the people of Israel, so he handed them over to robbers who took their possessions. He let their enemies who lived around them defeat them; they could not protect themselves. 15 When the Israelites went out to fight, they always lost, because the Lord was not with them. The Lord had sworn to them this would happen. So the Israelites suffered very much.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

through: Judges 3:1-4

prove: Genesis 22:1, Deuteronomy 8:2, Deuteronomy 8:16, Deuteronomy 13:3, 2 Chronicles 32:31, Job 23:10, Psalms 66:10, Proverbs 17:3, Malachi 3:2, Malachi 3:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:25 - proved Judges 3:4 - to prove Acts 18:25 - instructed

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the east, in a place called Eden, and put the man he had formed into it.
Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:19
From the ground God formed every wild animal and every bird in the sky, and he brought them to the man so the man could name them. Whatever the man called each living thing, that became its name.
Psalms 127:1

A song for going up to worship. Of Solomon.

If the Lord doesn't build the house, the builders are working for nothing. If the Lord doesn't guard the city, the guards are watching for nothing.
Proverbs 18:22
When a man finds a wife, he finds something good. It shows that the Lord is pleased with him.
Proverbs 19:14
Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a wise wife is a gift from the Lord .
1 Timothy 2:13
because Adam was formed first and then Eve.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by everyone, and husband and wife should keep their marriage pure. God will judge as guilty those who take part in sexual sins.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That through them I may prove Israel,.... Afflict them by them, and so prove or try them, their faith and patience, which are tried by afflictions; and such were the Canaanites to them, as afflictions and temptations are to the spiritual Israel of God; or rather, whether they would keep in the ways of God, or walk in those the Canaanites did, as follows:

whether they will keep the way of the Lord, as their fathers did keep [it], or not; whether they would worship the true God their fathers did, or the gods of the Canaanites; not that the Lord was ignorant of what they would do, and so made the experiment; but that the sincerity and faithfulness, or insincerity and unfaithfulness of their hearts, might appear to themselves and others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 2:22. That through them I may prove Israel — There appeared to be no other way to induce this people to acknowledge the true God, but by permitting them to fall into straits from which they could not be delivered but by his especial providence. These words are spoken after the manner of men; and the metaphor is taken from the case of a master or father, who distrusts the fidelity or obedience of his servant or son, and places him in such circumstances that, by his good or evil conduct, he may justify his suspicions, or give him proofs of his fidelity.


 
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