Judges 2:23

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Therefore, the Lord left all these nations, and he was not willing to quickly overthrow them, nor did he deliver them into the hands of Joshua.

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so that, by them, I may test Israel, as to whether or not they will keep the way of the Lord, and walk in it, just as their fathers kept it."

These are the nations which the Lord left, so that by them he might instruct Israel and all who had not known the wars of the Canaanites,