²¹ I will no longer drive out^(A) before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.

¹³ then you may be sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive out^(A) these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares^(B) and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes,^(C) until you perish from this good land,^(D) which the Lord your God has given you.

³ And I have also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you;^(A) they will become traps^(B) for you, and their gods will become snares^(C) to you.’”

²⁴ because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees^(A) and desecrated my Sabbaths,^(B) and their eyes lusted after^(C) their parents’ idols.^(D)

³ the five^(A) rulers of the Philistines,^(B) all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites^(C) living in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon^(D) to Lebo Hamath.^(E)