Thematic Bible: To try israel

I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died, Verse ConceptsNot Driving Them Out

Now these are the nations which LORD left to prove Israel by them, (even as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan, only that the generations of the sons of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least to such as formerly knew nothing of that): [namely], the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon to the entrance of Hamath. read more.
And they were [left], to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken to the commandments of LORD, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.