Gen 15:18-21, Exo 23:30-31, Jos 23:13, Judg 2:21-23 | ESV | STEP | On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram , saying , To your offspring I give this land , from the river of Egypt to the great river , the river Euphrates ,

Genesis 15:18-21

18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ^a“To your offspring I give ^{▼▼Or have given} this land, from ^cthe river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”

Exodus 23:30-31

30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. 31 ^dAnd I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, ^{▼▼Hebrew the River} for ^fI will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

Joshua 23:13

13 know for certain that ^gthe Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, ^hbut they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.

Judges 2:21-23

21 ⁱI will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died, 22 in order ^jto test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did, or not.” 23 So the Lord left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.