Judges 2:23

New King James Version

Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driving them out immediately; nor did He deliver them into the hand of Joshua.

Cross References

Judges 2:22

so that through them I may test Israel, whether they will keep the ways of the Lord, to walk in them as their fathers kept them, or not.”

Judges 3:1

Now these are the nations which the Lord left, that He might test Israel by them, that is, all who had not known any of the wars in Canaan