Exodus 23:29

I won't drive them out before you in a single year, so that the land does not become desolate and so that wild animals do not overrun you.

Deuteronomy 7:22

He slowly will dislodge these nations before you, but he won't destroy them quickly, so the wild animals won't multiply around you.

Joshua 15:63

Now as for the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, the descendants of Judah could not expel them, so Jebusites live with the descendants of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.

Joshua 16:10

However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites live within the territory of Ephraim to this day, but they serve as forced laborers.

Joshua 17:12-13

The descendants of Manasseh did not take possession of these cities, because the Canaanites predominated in that territory.

Judges 3:1-4

Here's a list of nations that the LORD caused to remain in order to test Israel (that is, everyone who had not gained any battle experience 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

He slowly will dislodge these nations before you, but he won't destroy them quickly, so the wild animals won't multiply around you.

Now as for the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, the descendants of Judah could not expel them, so Jebusites live with the descendants of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.

However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites live within the territory of Ephraim to this day, but they serve as forced laborers.

The descendants of Manasseh did not take possession of these cities, because the Canaanites predominated in that territory.

Here's a list of nations that the LORD caused to remain in order to test Israel (that is, everyone who had not gained any battle experience in Canaan)

General references

expelling all your enemies before you, as the LORD said."

then the LORD will dispossess all these nations before you and you'll dispossess nations that are even greater and stronger than you.

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

The descendants of Manasseh did not take possession of these cities, because the Canaanites predominated in that territory.

So the LORD gave all of the land to Israel that he had promised to give their ancestors, and they took possession and settled there in it.