For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war who came out of Egypt were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: to whom the LORD swore that he would not show them the land which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Yet the children of Manasseh could not expel the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

But I would not hearken to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.