29 I shall not drive them out from before you in one year, that the land may not become a desolate waste and the wild beasts of the field really multiply against you.+

55 “‘If, though, YOU will not drive the inhabitants of the land away from before YOU,+ then those whom YOU leave of them will certainly become as pricks in YOUR eyes and as thorns in YOUR sides, and they will indeed harass YOU on the land in which YOU will be dwelling.+

21 And the sons of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebʹu·sites inhabiting Jerusalem;+ but the Jebʹu·sites keep on dwelling with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem down to this day.+

23 Accordingly Jehovah let these nations stay by not driving them out quickly,+ and he did not give them into Joshua’s hand.

4 And they kept serving as agents to test+ Israel so as to know whether they would obey Jehovah’s commandments that he had commanded their fathers by means of Moses.+

11 While they were close by Jeʹbus, as the daylight had gone down considerably,+ the attendant now said to his master:* “O come, now, and let us turn aside to this city of the Jebʹu·sites+ and stay in it overnight.”

6 Consequently the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebʹu·sites+ inhabiting the land, and they began to say to David: “You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame ones will certainly turn you away,”+ they thinking: “David will not come in here.”