Judges 2:21
“Divine grace ever stirs up the will of human beings, not so as to protect and defend it in all things in such a way as to cause it not to fight by its own efforts against its spiritual adversaries, the victor over whom may set it down to God's grace, and the vanquished to his own weakness, and thus learn that his hope…”
Source: Septuagint
21therefore I will not anymore cast out a man of the nations from before their face, which Joshua the son of Nun left in the land. And the Lord left them,
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19And it came to pass when the judge died, that they went back, and again corrupted themselves worse than their fathers to go after other gods to serve them and to worship them: they abandoned not their devices nor their stubborn ways.
20And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and said, Forasmuch as this nation has forsaken my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not hearkened to my voice,
— Judges 2:21 —
22to prove Israel with them, whether they would keep the way of the Lord, to walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or no.
23So the Lord will leave these nations, so as not to cast them out suddenly; and he delivered them not into the hand of Joshua.