Holy Scripture
Judges 3:2
A church father on this verse
“As useful as it is to me that you [the Lord] should leave me for a little while in order to test the steadfastness of my desire, so it is harmful if you let me be abandoned for too long because of my deserts and my sins. For no human strength will be able to endure by its own steadfastness if it is too long abandoned…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2Only for the sake of the generations of Israel, to teach them war, only the men before them knew them not.
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1And these are the nations which the Lord left to prove Israel with them, all that had not known the wars of Canaan.
— Judges 3:2 —
3The five lordships of the Philistines, and every Canaanite, and the Sidonian, and the Hivite who dwelt in Lebanon from the mount of Hermon to Lebo-hamath.
4And this was done in order to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would obey the commands of the Lord, which he charged their fathers by the hand of Moses.