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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

hardships” (similarly TEV). An alternative model may be “causing you to endure hardships to test you.” To know what was in your heart: the purpose of the hardships was to reveal their disposition and will (TEV “what you intended”), especially to find out whether or not they would obey God’s commandments (see 4:2). CEV “He wanted to find out …” may be a useful model for some translators. He humbled you: as in verse 2. Let you hunger: God did not always provide food for them. TEV has “made you
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