Study Desk

So then the anger of Yahweh kindled upon Israel, and he said - Forasmuch as this nation have transgressed my covenant, which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice,

I also, will no further dispossess a man from before them, - from among the nations which Joshua left remaining, when he died;

that I may, by them, put Israel to the proof, - whether they are going to be observant of the way of Yahweh, to walk therein as their fathers observed it, or not.

Thus then Yahweh left these nations, not dispossessing them speedily, - neither had he delivered them into the hand of Joshua