Judges 2:21
Good News Translation
I will no longer drive out any of the nations that were still in the land when Joshua died.

New Revised Standard Version
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.”

Contemporary English Version
so I'll stop helping them defeat their enemies. Israel still had a lot of enemies when Joshua died,

New American Bible
I for my part will not clear away for them any more of the nations Joshua left when he died.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left when he died:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left when he died:

Judges 2:3 Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your face; that you may have enemies, and their gods may be your ruin.

Judges 3:3 The five princes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hevites that dwelt in Mount Libanus, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entering into Emath.

Joshua 23:13 Know ye for a certainty that the Lord your God will not destroy them before your face, but they shall be a pit and a snare in your way, and a stumbling-block at your side, and stakes in your eyes, till he take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he hath given you.

Ezekiel 20:24 Because they had not done my judgments, and had cast off my statutes, and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols of their fathers.

Context
Judges Raised Up
20And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said: Behold this nation hath made void my covenant, which I had made with their fathers, and hath despised to hearken to my voice: 21I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left when he died:22That through them I may try Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord, and walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.…
Cross References
Joshua 23:4
And now since he hath divided to you by lot all the land, from the east of the Jordan unto the great sea, ant many nations yet remain:

Joshua 23:5
The Lord your God will destroy them, and take them away from before your face, and you shall possess the land as he hath promised you.

Judges 1:1
After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel consulted the Lord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, and shall be the leader of the war?

Judges 3:1
These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:

Judges 2:20
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