The Pulpit Commentary on Nehemiah 9:8

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Canaanites, etc. The nations driven out were actually seven (Deuteronomy 7:1), but it is a common figure of speech to put the part for the whole. In the present enumeration the Hivites are omitted. Hast performed thy words.

Though for a time remnants of the accursed nations were left in the land, "to prove Israel" ( 3:1), yet ultimately all were either driven out or reduced to the condition of slaves (see the comment on Ezra 2:55).

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