Judges 2:23

Thus then Yahweh left these nations, not dispossessing them speedily,—neither had he delivered them into the hand of Joshua

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

22that I may, by them, put Israel to the proof,—whether they are going to be observant of the way of Yahweh, to walk therein as their fathers observed it, or not.

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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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