TSK · Judges 3:1

He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.

fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

So I will no longer remove before them any of the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died,

So when the envoys arrived from the Babylonian officials to visit him and inquire about the sign that occurred in the land, God left him alone to test him, in order to know his true motives.

The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the LORD tests hearts.

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people.

Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.