March 16: Um, excuse me?????

Judges 2:8-9, Joshua 24:29-30, 24:32-33, Judges 1:1-10, 16-19, Joshua 15:13-14, Judges 1:20, Judges 1:11-15, Joshua 15:15-19, Judges 1:22-26, Joshua 13:13, 16:10, Judges 1:29, Joshua 17:11-13, Judges 1:27-28, Joshua 15:63, Judges 1:21-36,m 2:1-5 

Joshua 13:13

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¹³ Yet the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell among [them] still.

Joshua 16:10

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¹⁰ But they did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, and they became slaves required to do forced labor.

Judges 1:29

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²⁹ Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer, but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

Joshua 17:11-13

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¹¹ Also Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher [these six towns], their inhabitants and their villages: Beth-shean, Ibleam, Dor, Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo.

¹² Yet the sons of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.

¹³ When the Israelites became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor but did not utterly drive them out.

Judges 1:27-28

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²⁷ Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or of Taanach or Dor or Ibleam or Megiddo and their villages, but the Canaanites remained in that land.

²⁸ When Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor but did not utterly drive them out.

Joshua 15:63

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⁶³ But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out; so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

Judges 1:21

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²¹ But the Benjamites did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem; the Jebusites dwell with the Benjamites in Jerusalem to this day.

Judges 1:30-36

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³⁰ Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron or of Nahalol, but the Canaanites dwelt among them and were put to forced labor.

³¹ Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Acco or of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob;

³² But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out.

³³ Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh or of Beth-anath, but dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; but the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.

³⁴ The Amorites forced the Danites back into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down into the plain;

³⁵ The Amorites remained fixed in Mount Heres [mountain of the sun], in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.

³⁶ And the border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock Sela and onward.

Judges 2:1-5

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2 Now the ^[a]Angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And He said, I brought you up from Egypt and have brought you to the land which I swore to give to your fathers, and I said, I will never break My covenant with you;

² And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; but you shall break down their altars. But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this?

³ So now I say, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.

⁴ When the Angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voice and wept.

⁵ They named that place Bochim [weepers], and they sacrificed there to the Lord.

Um, excuse me, a little late for sacrificing to the Lord. After all those multiple warnings time and time again, they did not obey. 

1 Samuel 15:22

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²² Samuel said, Has the Lord as great a delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

There you go, children of Israel. You wanted this. Thorns in your sides. 

This convicts me!!! 

"God what is it that I am still allowing in my life? Please reveal it to me! I don't want to allow a little sin! I don't want to MOSTLY obey You O God! This is what they did. They MOSTLY obeyed. But not completely!  Forgive me, O God! Cleanse my heart once again!!!"