Deuteronomy 7:22

New American Bible - revised edition

He will remove these nations before you little by little. You cannot finish with them quickly, lest the wild beasts become too numerous for you.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 9:3

Know, then, today that it is the Lord, your God, who will cross over before you as a consuming fire; he it is who will destroy them and subdue them before you, so that you can dispossess and remove them quickly, as the Lord promised you.

Joshua 15:63

But the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem the Judahites could not dispossess; so the Jebusites dwell in Jerusalem beside the Judahites to the present day.