Judges 2:23

Young's Literal Translation 1862

And Jehovah leaveth these nations, so as not to dispossess them hastily, and did not give them into the hand of Joshua.

Cross References

Judges 2:22

in order to try Israel by them, whether they are keeping the way of Jehovah, to go in it, as their fathers kept `it' or not.'

Judges 3:1

And these `are' the nations which Jehovah left, to try Israel by them, all who have not known all the wars of Canaan;