Judges 2:21-23

Evangelical Heritage Version

²¹ I will no longer drive out from among them a single one of the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died. ²² I will do this in order to test Israel by means of them. Will Israel keep the way of the Lord and walk upon it as their fathers kept it, or not?” ²³ So the Lord gave those nations a reprieve, and he did not drive them out quickly. He did not hand them over to Joshua.