Richter 3:4

Lutherbibel

Dieselben blieben, Israel durch sie zu versuchen, daß es kund würde, ob sie den Geboten des HERRN gehorchten, die er ihren Vätern geboten hatte durch Mose.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
[Dieselben verblieben,] damit Israel durch sie geprüft werde, auf daß kund würde, ob sie den Geboten des Herrn folgen würden, die er ihren Vätern durch Mose geboten hatte.

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und sie dienten dazu, Israel durch sie zu versuchen, um zu wissen, ob sie den Geboten Jehovas gehorchen würden, welche er ihren Vätern durch Mose geboten hatte.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to prove: Judges 3:1, Judges 2:22, Exodus 15:25, Deuteronomy 33:8, 1 Corinthians 11:19, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they were to prove Israel by them,.... They were left in the land, as to inure them to war, and try their courage, so to prove their faithfulness to God:

to know whether they would hearken to the commandments, of the Lord,

which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses; even all the commandments of the Lord delivered to them by Moses, moral, civil, and ceremonial, and particularly those that concerned the destruction of the Canaanites, their altars, and their idols, Deuteronomy 7:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 3:4. To know whether they would hearken — This would be the consequence of the Canaanites being left among them: if they should be faithful to God, their enemies would not be able to enslave them; should they be rebellious, the Lord would abandon them to their foes.