Jueces 2:22

22 Las usaré para poner a prueba a Israel y ver si guarda mi camino y anda por él, 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 se enfureció contra Israel y dijo: «Puesto que esta nación ha violado el pacto que yo establecí con sus antepasados y no me ha obedecido,

21 tampoco yo echaré de su presencia a ninguna de las naciones que Josué dejó al morir.

22 Las usaré para poner a prueba a Israel y ver si guarda mi camino y anda por él, como lo hicieron sus antepasados».

23 Por eso el SEÑOR dejó en paz a esas naciones; no las echó en seguida ni las entregó en manos de Josué.