Exodus 23:28-
30 And I will send
hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. ... By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Numbers 33:52-
53 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: ... And ye shall dispossess [
the inhabitants] of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
Judges 2:1-
3 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to
Bochim, and said,
I made you to go up out of Egypt, and
have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said,
I will never break my covenant with you. ... Wherefore
I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be [
as thorns] in your sides, and
their gods shall be a snare unto you.
Judges 3:1-
4 Now these [
are] the nations which the LORD left, to
prove Israel by them, [
even] as many [
of Israel]
as had not known all the wars of Canaan; ... And they were
to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.