Deuteronomy 7:22
“And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.”
Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
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“I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.”
“I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.”
“But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.”
“Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;”
“Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.”