Judges 2:22 YLT

²⁰  And the anger of Jehovah doth burn against Israel, and He saith, 'Because that this nation have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened to My voice --

²¹  I also continue not to dispossess any from before them of the nations which Joshua hath left when he dieth,

²²  in order to try Israel by them, whether they are keeping the way of Jehovah, to go in it, as their fathers kept 'it' or not.'

²³  And Jehovah leaveth these nations, so as not to dispossess them hastily, and did not give them into the hand of Joshua.