Exodus 23:29
I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.
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- Deut 7:22 : 22 He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.
- Judg 3:1-4 : 1 These were the nations the LORD permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel– he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites. 2 He left those nations simply because he wanted to teach the subsequent generations of Israelites, who had not experienced the earlier battles, how to conduct holy war. 3 These were the nations: the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath. 4 They were left to test Israel, so the LORD would know if his people would obey the commands he gave their ancestors through Moses.
- Josh 15:63 : 63 The men of Judah were unable to conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this very day.
- Josh 16:10 : 10 The Ephraimites did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites live among the Ephraimites to this very day and do hard labor as their servants.
- Josh 17:12-13 : 12 But the men of Manasseh were unable to conquer these cities; the Canaanites managed to remain in those areas. 13 Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.
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- Exod 23:30-334 verses86%
30Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.
31I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
32“You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.
33They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
- Exod 23:26-283 verses82%
26No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
27“I will send my terror before you, and I will alarm all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
28I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.
- Deut 7:22-232 verses80%
22He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.
23The LORD your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.
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3At that time I also warned you,‘If you disobey, I will not drive out the Canaanites before you. They will ensnare you and their gods will lure you away.’”
- Judg 2:21-233 verses73%
21So I will no longer remove before them any of the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died,
22in order to test Israel. I want to see whether or not the people will carefully walk in the path marked out by the LORD, as their ancestors were careful to do.”
23This is why the LORD permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; he did not hand them over to Joshua.
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12I sent terror ahead of you to drive out before you the two Amorite kings. I gave you the victory; it was not by your swords or bows.
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55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those whom you allow to remain will be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your side, and will cause you trouble in the land where you will be living.
- Exod 33:2-32 verses72%
2I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
3Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.”
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13know for certain that the LORD our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the LORD your God gave you.
- Exod 34:11-122 verses71%
11“Obey what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare among you.
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23then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
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23For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them completely.
- Deut 9:4-52 verses70%
4Do not think to yourself after the LORD your God has driven them out before you,“Because of my own righteousness the LORD has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.
5It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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5The LORD your God will drive them out from before you and remove them, so you can occupy their land as the LORD your God promised you.
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20Furthermore, the LORD your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.
- Judg 1:27-293 verses69%
27The men of Manasseh did not conquer Beth Shean, Taanach, or their surrounding towns. Nor did they conquer the people living in Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo or their surrounding towns. The Canaanites managed to remain in those areas.
28Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.
29The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.
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17If you think,“These nations are more numerous than I– how can I dispossess them?”
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24For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
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22I will send the wild animals against you and they will bereave you of your children, annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population so that your roads will become deserted.
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23You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.
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1The Dispossession of Nonvassals When the LORD your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you– Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you–
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6I will grant peace in the land so that you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. I will remove harmful animals from the land, and no sword of war will pass through your land.
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11No human foot will pass through it, and no animal’s foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.
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9“The LORD drove out from before you great and mighty nations; no one has been able to resist you to this very day.
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38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.
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29The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.
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24Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.
- Josh 17:12-132 verses67%
12But the men of Manasseh were unable to conquer these cities; the Canaanites managed to remain in those areas.
13Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.
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28Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say,“The LORD was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”
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15“Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children, leaving it desolate, without travelers due to the wild animals.
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25Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.
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13I will destroy all its cattle beside the plentiful waters; and no human foot will disturb the waters again, nor will the hooves of cattle disturb them.
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17and I have promised that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
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24Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.
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10Come, let’s deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country.”