Exodus 23:29 Cross References - MKJV

²⁹ I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a waste, and the beast of the field multiply against you.

²² And Jehovah your God will put out those nations before you by little and little. You may not destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you.

⁶³ As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out. But the Jebusites live with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

¹⁰ And they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. But the Canaanites live among the Ephraimites until this day, and serve under tribute.

¹² Yet the sons of Manasseh were not able to occupy these cities, but the Canaanites wanted to live in that land. ¹³ And it happened when the sons of Israel had become strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute. But they did not completely drive them out.

¹ And these are the nations which Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan; ² only that the generations of the sons of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least those who before knew nothing of it: ³ five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that lived in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon to the border of Hamath. ⁴ And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commands of Jehovah, which He commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.