Judges 2:21
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
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Context
19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, they returned, and corrupted 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.
20 And the anger of the Yahuah was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people has transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Yahuah to walk therein, as their fathers did keep , or not.
23 Therefore the Yahuah left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.