Exodus 23:29

I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you.

Deuteronomy 7:22

The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.

Joshua 15:63

But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

Joshua 16:10

However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.

Joshua 17:12-13

Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.

Judges 3:1-4

Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.

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Exodus 23:29

I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

In one year

Judges 3:1

General references

Joshua 21:43

Bible References

In one year

The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.

But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.

Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.

Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.

General references

by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has promised.

then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

And the LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.

Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.

Thus the LORD gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there.