Judges 1:28
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New International Version (©2011)
When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely.

New Living Translation (©2007)
When the Israelites grew stronger, they forced the Canaanites to work as slaves, but they never did drive them completely out of the land.

English Standard Version (©2001)
When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
It came about when Israel became strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out completely.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When Israel became stronger, they made the Canaanites serve as forced labor but never drove them out completely.

International Standard Version (©2012)
When Israel had grown strong, they subjected the Canaanites to conscripted labor and never did expel them completely.

NET Bible (©2006)
Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When the Israelites were strong enough, they made the Canaanites do forced labor. But they did not force all of them out.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.

American King James Version
And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.

American Standard Version
And it came to pass, when Israel was waxed strong, that they put the Canaanites to taskwork, and did not utterly drive them out.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But after Israel was grown strong he made them tributaries, and would not destroy them.

Darby Bible Translation
When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.

English Revised Version
And it came to pass, when Israel was waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to taskwork, and did not utterly drive them out.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass when Israel was strong, that they subjected the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly expel them.

World English Bible
It happened, when Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.

Young's Literal Translation
and it cometh to pass, when Israel hath been strong, that he setteth the Canaanite to tribute, and hath not utterly dispossessed it.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:21-36 The people of Israel were very careless of their duty and interest. Owing to slothfulness and cowardice, they would not be at the pains to complete their conquests. It was also owing to their covetousness: they were willing to let the Canaanites live among them, that they might make advantage of them. They had not the dread and detestation of idolatry they ought to have had. The same unbelief that kept their fathers forty years out of Canaan, kept them now out of the full possession of it. Distrust of the power and promise of God deprived them of advantages, and brought them into troubles. Thus many a believer who begins well is hindered. His graces languish, his lusts revive, Satan plies him with suitable temptations, the world recovers its hold; he brings guilt into his conscience, anguish into his heart, discredit on his character, and reproach on the gospel. Though he may have sharp rebukes, and be so recovered that he does not perish, yet he will have deeply to lament his folly through his remaining days; and upon his dying bed to mourn over the opportunities of glorifying God and serving the church he has lost. We can have no fellowship with the enemies of God within us or around us, but to our hurt; therefore our only wisdom is to maintain unceasing war against them.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 28. - Put the Canaanites to tribute, or made them tributaries, as in vers. 30, 33, i.e. imposed forced labour upon them, as the Gibeonites were made hewers of wood and drawers of water (Joshua 9:21, 27; see 1 Kings 9:21).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And it came to pass, when Israel was strong,.... All the tribes of Israel were become numerous, and able to drive the Canaanites out of the land everywhere, and particularly were able to assist Manasseh in expelling the Canaanites out of the above places, yet they did not; but all they did was:

that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out; which flowed from covetousness, and a love of ease; they did not care to be at the trouble of expelling them, as they found it turned more to their account and present advantage to make them tributaries; and this was true of the Israelites in general, and of the half tribe of Manasseh in particular; which, as Abarbinel thinks, is here respected.

Judges 1:28 Parallel Commentaries
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Places Not Conquered
27Neither 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. 28And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out. 29Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelled in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelled in Gezer among them. …

Judges 1:27 But Manasseh did not drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor or Ibleam or Megiddo and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that land.
Judges 1:29 Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, but the Canaanites continued to live there among them.
1 Kings 9:21 Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these peoples remaining in the land--whom the Israelites could not exterminate --to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.
Proverbs 12:24 Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.