Judges 2:21-23

The Message

^20-22 And God’s anger blazed against Israel. He said, “Because these people have thrown out my covenant that I commanded their parents and haven’t listened to me, I’m not driving out one more person from the nations that Joshua left behind when he died. I’ll use them to test Israel and see whether they stay on God’s road and walk down it as their parents did.”

²³ That’s why God let those nations remain. He didn’t drive them out or let Joshua get rid of them.