29 ^pI will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you.

22 ^mThe Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once,¹ lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.

63 But the ^gJebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ^hthe people of Judah could not drive out, ^hso the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

10 However, ^rthey did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made ^sto do forced labor.

12 ^fYet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land. 13 Now when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites ^gto forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.

1 ^pNow these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan. 2 It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before. 3 These are the nations: ^qthe five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath. 4 They were for ^rthe testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.