Judges 2:23

The Scriptures 2009

So יהוה left those nations, without driving them out at once, and did not give them into the hand of Yehoshua.

Cross References

Judges 2:22

in order to try Yisra’ĕl by them, whether they would guard the way of יהוה, to walk in them as their fathers guarded them, or not.”

Judges 3:1

And these are the nations which יהוה left, to try Yisra’ĕl by them, all those who had not known all the battles in Kena‛an,