Holy Scripture
Judges 2:23
A church father on this verse
“You may read that it was possible for the nations to be exterminated at once out of the land which was given to the children of Israel, and yet that God willed it to be gradually effected. And one may meet with a thousand other incidents, the past or the future possibility of which we might readily admit, and yet be u…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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In context
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,
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.
— Judges 2:23 —