TSK · Judges 3:1

Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:

I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;

However in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,

Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.