²² The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little.^(A) You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.

²⁹ But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals^(A) too numerous for you. ³⁰ Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession^(B) of the land.

⁶³ Judah could not^(A) dislodge the Jebusites^(B), who were living in Jerusalem;^(C) to this day the Jebusites live there with the people of Judah.^(D)