Judges 2:21
From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;

--------------------

 

Judges 2:21
From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;

--------------------


Judges 2:23
So the Lord let those nations go on living in the land, not driving them out quickly, and did not give them up into the hands of Joshua.

Joshua 23:13
Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

-----

Judges 2:22
In order to put Israel to the test, and see if they will keep the way of the Lord, walking in it as their fathers did, or not.

-----

Judges 3:1
Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan;

Judges 3:2
Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--only those who up till then had no experience of it;

Judges 3:3
The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath:

Judges 3:4
For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses.


Public Domain