Juízes 2:22

22 Eu as usarei para pôr Israel à prova e ver se guardará o caminho do SENHOR e se andará nele como o fizeram os seus antepassados”.

Juízes 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.

Juízes 2:22 In-Context

20 Por isso a ira do SENHOR acendeu-se contra Israel, e ele disse: “Como este povo violou a aliança que fiz com os seus antepassados e não tem ouvido a minha voz,
21 não expulsarei de diante dele nenhuma das nações que Josué deixou quando morreu.
22 Eu as usarei para pôr Israel à prova e ver se guardará o caminho do SENHOR e se andará nele como o fizeram os seus antepassados”.
23 O SENHOR havia permitido que essas nações permanecessem; não as expulsou de imediato e não as entregou nas mãos de Josué.
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