so that through them I may test Israel, whether they will keep the ways of the LORD, to walk in them as their fathers kept them, or not."
Judges 2:22
Surrounding context
2:21 I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,
2:22 so that through them I may test Israel, whether they will keep the ways of the LORD, to walk in them as their fathers kept them, or not."
2:23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out immediately; nor did He deliver them into the hand of Joshua.