Jos Joshua, chapter Book of Joshua, chapter 23
certainly know that yöur God YHWH is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before yöu, and they have been to yöu for a trap, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in yöur sides, and for thorns in yöur eyes, until yöu perish from off this good ground which yöur God YHWH has given to yöu. Jdg 2:3; Deu 7:4