Exodus 23:29

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Summary

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 send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.

And as for the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, the children of Judah were unable to make them go out; but the Jebusites are living with the children of Judah at Jerusalem, to this day.

And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.

But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.

Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan;

General references

To send out from before you all those who are against you.

Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.

The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction.

But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.

So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave by oath to their fathers; so it became their heritage and their living-place.