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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I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died: …
And 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.
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
Who 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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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)We are here told what remained of the old inhabitants of Canaan. 1. There were some of them that kept together in united bodies, unbroken (Jdg. 3:3): The five lords of the Philistines , namely, Ashdod, Gaza, Askelon, Gath, and Ekron, 1 Sam. 6:7. Three of these cities had been in part reduced (Jdg. 1:18), but it seems the Philistines (probably with the help of the other two, which strengthened thei…
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