Judges 2:22

22 in order to test Israel whether or not they would observe the way of Yahweh, to walk in it just as their ancestors did."

Judges 2:22 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 2:22

That through them I may prove Israel
Afflict them by them, and so prove or try them, their faith and patience, which are tried by afflictions; and such were the Canaanites to them, as afflictions and temptations are to the spiritual Israel of God; or rather, whether they would keep in the ways of God, or walk in those the Canaanites did, as follows:

whether they will keep the way of the Lord, as their fathers did keep
[it], or not;
whether they would worship the true God their fathers did, or the gods of the Canaanites; not that the Lord was ignorant of what they would do, and so made the experiment; but that the sincerity and faithfulness, or insincerity and unfaithfulness of their hearts, might appear to themselves and others.

Judges 2:22 In-Context

20 {So the anger of Yahweh burned} against Israel, and he said, "Because this people transgressed my covenant that I commanded their ancestors, and have not obeyed my voice,

21 I will not again drive out anyone from before them from the nations that Joshua left when he died,

22 in order to test Israel whether or not they would observe the way of Yahweh, to walk in it just as their ancestors did."

23 So Yahweh left those nations; he did not drive them out at once, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "fathers"