Judges 2:23

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

So the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

Cross References

Judges 2:22

that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

Judges 3:1

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