Even as many of Israel ... - These words show that the writer has especially in view the generation that reached adulthood immediately after…

To prove Israel. —The verb here used is the same as in Judges 2:22 and Judges 3:4, but, as R. Tanchum observes, it is used in a slightly d…

Now these [are] the nations which the Lord left to prove
Israel by them
Which are lat…

As the Israelites were a type of the church on earth, they were not to be idle and slothful. The Lord was pleased to try them by the remains of the…