Judges 3:1
Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
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- Judges 2:21–22 I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them; that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”
- Deuteronomy 7:22 Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
- Proverbs 17:3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.