Judges 2:21
“I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:”
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
Related Verses
“Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.”
“And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old.”
“And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.”
“Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.”
“But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.”