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Judges 2:23
Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out speedily, neither did he deliver them into the hand of Joshua.
Judges 2:23 · Webster 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. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.
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In context
20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened to my voice;
21 I also will not henceforth drive out from before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk in it, as their fathers kept [it], or not.
23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out speedily, neither did he deliver them into the hand of Joshua.
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