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Judges 2:21
I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;

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Judges 2:23
So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.

Joshua 23:13
know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

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Judges 2:22
that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”

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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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