²² In order to put Israel to the test, and see if they will keep the way of the Lord, walking in it as their fathers did, or not.

² And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.

³ Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him.

¹⁶ Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;

² But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.

³ He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.

³ The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

¹⁰ For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

¹⁰ For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.

³¹ However, in the business of the representatives sent by the rulers of Babylon to get news of the wonder which had taken place in the land, God gave up guiding him, testing him to see what was in his heart.

¹ Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan;

² Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--only those who up till then had no experience of it;

³ The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath:

⁴ For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses.

¹ Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.