20. So the Lord became angry with Israel and said, "Because this nation has violated my covenant that I required of their ancestors and hasn’t obeyed me,
21. I in turn will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died."
22. As a test for Israel, to see whether they would carefully walk in the Lord’s ways just as their ancestors had done,
23. the Lord left these nations instead of driving them out immediately or handing them over to Joshua.