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Exodus 23:29
I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.

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Exodus 23:30
Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.

Deuteronomy 7:22
Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

Deuteronomy 7:1
When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you;

Deuteronomy 7:2
and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.

Exodus 34:11
Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Deuteronomy 11:23
then Yahweh will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

Deuteronomy 11:24
Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.

Genesis 15:18
In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Deuteronomy 9:3
Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.

Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.

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2 Kings 17:25
So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

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Judges 3:1
Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

Judges 3:2
only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:

Judges 3:3
the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

Judges 3:4
They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to Yahweh’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

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Ezekiel 14:15
“If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals—

2 Kings 17:26
Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria don’t know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them; and behold, they kill them, because they don’t know the law of the god of the land.”

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Joshua 15:63
As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn’t drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

Joshua 17:12
Yet the children of Manasseh couldn’t drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

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