Jueces 2:22

22 Lo hice para poner a prueba a Israel: para ver si seguiría o no los caminos del Señor
, como lo hicieron sus antepasados».

Jueces 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.

Jueces 2:22 In-Context

20 Por eso el Señor
ardió de enojo contra Israel y dijo: «Ya que este pueblo ha violado mi pacto que hice con sus antepasados y no ha hecho caso a mis mandatos,

21 ya no expulsaré a las naciones que Josué dejó sin conquistar cuando murió.

22 Lo hice para poner a prueba a Israel: para ver si seguiría o no los caminos del Señor
, como lo hicieron sus antepasados».

23 Por esa razón el Señor
dejó esas naciones donde estaban. No las expulsó de inmediato, ni permitió que Josué las conquistara a todas.