A moment in scripture
Judges 2:23
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Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
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The surrounding passage
- Judges 2:21
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
- Judges 2:22
That through 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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.