'Drive Them Out' in the Bible

But the Lord replied to Moses, “Now you are going to see what I will do to Pharaoh: he will let them go because of My strong hand; he will drive them out of his land because of My strong hand.”

I will not drive them out ahead of you in a single year; otherwise, the land would become desolate, and wild animals would multiply against you.

I will drive them out little by little ahead of you until you have become numerous and take possession of the land.

I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. For I will place the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you will drive them out ahead of you.

Please come and put a curse on these people for me because they are more powerful than I am. I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that those you bless are blessed and those you curse are cursed.”

“If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out?’

But understand that today the Lord your God will cross over ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will devastate and subdue them before you. You will drive them out and destroy them swiftly, as the Lord has told you.

“When the Lord your God annihilates the nations before you, which you are entering to take possession of, and you drive them out and live in their land,

“When the Lord your God annihilates the nations whose land He is giving you, so that you drive them out and live in their cities and houses,

The Lord your God is the One who will cross ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will drive them out. Joshua is the one who will cross ahead of you, as the Lord has said.

all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians.I will drive them out before the Israelites, only distribute the land as an inheritance for Israel, as I have commanded you.

Now give me this hill country the Lord promised me on that day, because you heard then that the Anakim are there, as well as large fortified cities. Perhaps the Lord will be with me and I will drive them out as the Lord promised.”

However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they imposed forced labor on the Canaanites but did not drive them out completely.

The Lord your God will force them back on your account and drive them out before you so that you can take possession of their land, as the Lord your God promised you.

The Asherites lived among the Canaanites who were living in the land, because they failed to drive them out.

The Lord left these nations and did not drive them out immediately. He did not hand them over to Joshua.

Punish them, God;let them fall by their own schemes.Drive them out because of their many crimes,for they rebel against You.