Judges 2:20-24
Judges 2:20
So the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has violated My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to My voice,
Judges 2:21
I in turn will no longer drive out from them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,
Judges 2:22
in order to test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk in it as their fathers did, or not.”
Judges 2:23
So the Lord allowed those nations to remain, not driving them out quickly; and He did not hand them over to Joshua.