King James Version (KJV)
Judges 2:23
“Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.”
Verse in context — Judges 2
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I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
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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.
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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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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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