Judges 2:23

A Conservative Version

So LORD left those nations, without driving them out quickly. Neither did he deliver them into the hand of Joshua.

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that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of LORD to walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.

Now these are the nations which LORD left to prove Israel by them, (even as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan,