King James Version (KJV)
Judges 2:21
“I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:”
Verse in context — Judges 2
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, [that] they returned, and corrupted [themselves] more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
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 unto my voice;
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
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.
Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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