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Judges 2:23
So the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.
Judges 2:23 · World English Bible
Judges 2:23 in other translations
Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
That is why the LORD had left those nations in place and had not driven them out immediately by delivering them into the hand of Joshua.
So the Lord left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
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In context
20 The LORD’s anger burned against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice,
21 I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;
22 that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep the LORD’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”
23 So the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.
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