Exodus 23:29
I will not cast them out in one year, lest the land grow to a wilderness: and the beasts of the field multiply upon thee.
Deuteronomy 7:22
The LORD thy God will put out these nations before thee a little and a little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Joshua 15:63
But the Jebusites that were the inhabiters of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not cast out. Wherefore the Jebusites dwell among the children of Judah unto this day.
Joshua 16:10
Notwithstanding, they drave not out the Cananites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Cananites dwelt among the Ephraimites unto this day, and pay tribute.
Joshua 17:12-13
yet the children of Manasseh could not overcome those cities, but the Cananites began to dwell in the same land.
Judges 3:1-4
These are the nations which the LORD left to tempt Israel, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan.