Judges 2:23

Modern King James Version

And Jehovah left those nations, without driving them out quickly. And He did not deliver them into the hand of Joshua.

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so that by them I may test Israel, whether they are keeping the way of Jehovah, to go in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.

And these are the nations which Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;