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Romanian Cornilescu Translation
Judecătorii 2:22
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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
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.
