Judges 2:23
Therefore the Yahuah left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
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Context
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.