12Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
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I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. …
Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. …
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 unto this day.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. …
And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)We have here a short account of the lot of this half tribe. It reached from Jordan on the east to the great sea on the west; on the south it lay all along contiguous to Ephraim, but on the north it abutted upon Asher and Issachar. Asher lay north-west, and Issachar north-east, which seems to be the meaning of that (Josh. 17:10), that they (that is, Manasseh and Ephraim, as related to it, both toge…
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