So the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Yehoshua.
that by them I may prove Yisra'el, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Yisra'el by them, even as many [of Yisra'el] as had not known all the wars of Kena`an;