Judges 2:20-23

201So the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers and has not listened to My voice,

212I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,

22in order to 3test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk in it as their fathers 4did, or not.”

23So the Lord allowed those nations to remain, not driving them out quickly; and He did not give them into the hand of Joshua.