⁴ They were for ^(A)the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

^21 (A)I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died, ²² in order ^(B)to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did, or not.”