For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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.

The Lord kept faith with the house of Israel about all the good which he said he would do for them, and all his words came true.