22 And the LORD your God will put out those nations before you by little and little: You may not consume them at once, lest the wild beasts of the field increase on you.
Deuteronomy 7:22 Cross References - TKJU
Exodus 23:29-30
Joshua 15:63
63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.