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Judges 3:1

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NOW these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
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  1. Judges 2:21–22Rank 1 from verse 1
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    21I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

    22That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

  2. Deuteronomy 7:22Rank 2 from verse 1
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    22And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

  3. Proverbs 17:3Rank 3 from verse 1
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    3The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.

  4. 1 Peter 4:12Rank 4 from verse 1
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    12Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

  5. Deuteronomy 8:16Rank 5 from verse 1
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    16Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

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Judges 3:1

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nations

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Sense 1: Distinct peoples or political communities. Sense 2: The Gentile peoples as distinguished from Israel.

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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left

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Sense 1: Past tense and past participle of leave: departed, abandoned, allowed to remain, or caused to remain. Sense 2: The direction or side opposite the right.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

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even

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1. Used to emphasize, include, or precisely identify what is meant: indeed, precisely, or namely. 2. Used to mark a boundary, endpoint, or full reach in place, time, or degree: up to, as far as, or through. 3. In ‘even as,’ ‘even so,’ and like constructions, just as, exactly so, or in the same manner. 4. The evening, or close of day. 5. Equal, level, identical, balanced, or uniform.

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1NOW these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

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2Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;

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