Judges 2:22

Israel Worships The Baals

²¹ I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died, ²² in order to test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk in it as their fathers did, or not.” ²³ So the Lord allowed those nations to remain, not driving them out quickly; and He did not give them into the hand of Joshua.

Walk in the Way of

Way of the Lord

Israel

Jehovah

Joshua

Deuteronomy 8:2

You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 8:16

In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you in the end.

Deuteronomy 13:3

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you to find out if you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Genesis 22:1

Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

Judges 3:1-4

Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to test Israel by them (that is, all who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan;

2 Chronicles 32:31

Even in the matter of the envoys of the rulers of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone only to test him, that He might know all that was in his heart.

Job 23:10

“But He knows the way I take;
When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Psalm 66:10

For You have tried us, O God;
You have refined us as silver is refined.

Proverbs 17:3

The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
But the Lord tests hearts.

Malachi 3:2-3

“But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.