Judges 2:23

This is the reason why the Lord allowed those nations to remain, and didn't immediately drive them out by handing them over to Joshua.

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In The King James Version

Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

In Context

22This is in order to use them to test Israel to see if they will keep the way of the Lord and follow it as their forefathers did.”

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Matthew Henry on Judges 2:7-23

The Idolatry of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1425.) 6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. 7 And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord , that he did for Israel. 8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord , died, being a hundred and ten years old. 9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres,… Read the whole commentary →

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