Failure of the Other Tribes

27 At that time Manasseh failed to take possession of Beth-shean[a](A) and its villages,[b] or Taanach(B) and its villages, or the residents of Dor(C) and its villages, or the residents of Ibleam[c](D) and its villages, or the residents of Megiddo(E) and its villages; the Canaanites refused to leave[d] this land.(F) 28 When Israel became stronger, they made the Canaanites serve as forced labor but never drove them out completely.(G)

29 At that time Ephraim failed to drive out the Canaanites who were living in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived among them in Gezer.[e](H)

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:27 LXX reads Beth-shean, which is a Scythian city
  2. Judges 1:27 LXX reads its villages or the fields around it
  3. Judges 1:27 LXX reads Balaam
  4. Judges 1:27 LXX reads Canaanites began to live in
  5. Judges 1:29 LXX reads Gezer, and became forced labor

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