Judges 2:23

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

And Jehovah will leave these nations, not to drive them out quickly, and he gave them not into the hand of Joshua.

Cross References

Judges 2:22

So as to try Israel by them, whether they are watching the way of Jehovah to go in them, as their fathers watched, or not.

Judges 3:1

These the nations which Jehovah left to try Israel by them, (all which knew not the wars of Canaan;