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

New Living Translation
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
When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.

Berean Standard Bible
When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.

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

New King James Version
And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites under tribute, but did not completely drive them out.

New American Standard Bible
And it came about, when Israel became strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor; but they did not drive them out completely.

NASB 1995
It came about when Israel became strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out completely.

NASB 1977
And it came about when Israel became strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out completely.

Legacy Standard Bible
And it happened when Israel became strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not dispossess them completely.

Amplified Bible
It happened when Israel became strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out completely.

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

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

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And when Israel was empowered, it subdued the Canaanites by taxes and did not destroy it

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And it came to pass when Israel was strong, that he made the Chananite tributary, but did not utterly drive them out.

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

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.

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

Good News Translation
When the Israelites became stronger, they forced the Canaanites to work for them, but still they did not drive them all out.

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
And it came to pass, when Israel was waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to task-work, but did in no wise drive them out.

Literal Standard Version
and it comes to pass, when Israel has been strong, that he sets the Canaanite to forced labor, and has not utterly dispossessed it.

Majority Standard Bible
When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.

New American Bible
When Israel grew stronger, they conscripted the Canaanites as laborers, but did not actually drive them out.

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

New Revised Standard Version
When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not in fact drive them out.

New Heart English Bible
It happened, when Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, 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
When Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t 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.

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Context
Failure to Complete the Conquest
27At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land. 28 When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely. 29Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.…

Cross References
Judges 1:27
At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land.

Judges 1:29
Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.

1 Kings 9:21
their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction--Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.

Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.


Treasury of Scripture

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Judges 1
1. The acts of Judah and Simeon
4. Adonibezek justly requited
8. Jerusalem taken
10. Hebron taken
11. Othniel has Achsah to wife for taking of Debir
16. The Kenites dwell in Judah
17. Hormah, Gaza, Askelon, and Ekron taken
21. The acts of Benjamin
22. Of the house of Joseph, who take Bethel
30. Of Zebulun
31. Of Asher
33. Of Naphtali
34. Of Dan














(28) Did not utterly drive them out.--This is mentioned by way of blame, as the cause of their future sins and disasters (Judges 2:2; Josh. 16:16, Joshua 17:13). As to the morality of these exterminating wars, we must bear in mind that men and nations must alike be judged by the moral standard of their own day, not by the advanced morality of later ages. We learn from unanimous testimony that the nations of Canaan had sunk to the lowest and vilest depths of moral degeneracy. When nations have fallen thus low, the cup of their iniquity is full; they are practically irreclaimable. To mingle with them would inevitably be to learn their works, for their worst abominations would find an ally in the natural weakness and corruption of the human heart. The Israelites therefore believed that it was their positive duty to destroy them, and the impulse which led them to do so was one which sprang from their best and not from their worst instincts. It must not be forgotten that the teaching of Christ has absolutely changed the moral conceptions of the world. It intensified, to a degree which we can hardly estimate, our sense of the inalienable rights of humanity and of the individual man. In these days there is scarcely any amount of evidence which would convince us that we were bidden to exterminate a whole population, and involve women and children in one indistinguishable massacre. But neither the Israelites nor any other ancient nations, at this early stage of their moral development, had any conception corresponding to those which would in our minds rightly excite horror, were we to receive a command like that given by Moses, that "thou shalt save nothing alive that breatheth" (Deuteronomy 22:16), or by Samuel, "Slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass" (1Samuel 15:3). We should instantly declare it to be impossible that God--as Christ has revealed to us the character of our Father in heaven--should give us commands which would militate against our sense of justice no less than against our sense of compassion. To quote such commands as an excuse for, or an incentive to, such horrible acts of wickedness as the Sack of Beziers, or the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, is ignorantly and recklessly to obliterate the whole results of God's progressive moral education of our race. It is to ignore the fact that we are living under a wholly different dispensation, and to disavow every blessing which has accrued to humanity from the broadening light and divine revelation of three thousand years. But the ancient Israelites, living as they did in the "days of ignorance" which God "winked at" (Acts 17:30), had never attained to that idea of human individuality--that sense of the independence and infinite worth of each human life--which would have shown them that they knew not what manner of spirit they were of (Luke 9:56). The wild and passionate sense of severe justice, the comparative indifference to human life, the familiarity with pain and death which blunted the keen edge of pity, "the deficient sense of individuality, the exaggerated sense of the solidarity which united a criminal with all his surroundings and possessions," prevented them from regarding the execution of their ban on guilty nations, cities, or families in any other light than that of the zeal for righteousness by which it was impelled. Their deeds must be estimated by the elements of nobleness which mingled with them, and not indiscriminately condemned by standards of judgment of which neither they nor the age in which they lived had any conception. They firmly believed that in exterminating Canaan they were acting under Divine commands; and there was nothing in such commands which would in that day have shocked the moral sense of the world. "They did not look unnatural to the ancient Jew; they were not foreign to his standard; they excited no surprise or perplexity; they appealed to a genuine but rough idea of justice which existed, when the longing for retribution upon crime in the human mind was not checked by the strict sense of human individuality" (Mozley, Lectures on the Old Test., p. 103). . . . 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).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

became stronger,
חָזַ֣ק (ḥā·zaq)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2388: To fasten upon, to seize, be strong, obstinate, to bind, restrain, conquer

they pressed
וַיָּ֥שֶׂם (way·yā·śem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

the Canaanites
הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י (hak·kə·na·‘ă·nî)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3669: Canaanite -- inhabitant of Canaan

into forced labor,
לָמַ֑ס (lā·mas)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4522: Body of forced laborers, forced service, taskworkers, taskwork, serfdom

but they never
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

drove them out
וְהוֹרֵ֖ישׁ (wə·hō·w·rêš)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 3423: To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin

completely.
הוֹרִישֽׁוֹ׃ (hō·w·rî·šōw)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3423: To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin


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