Joshua 17:12
Good News Translation
The people of Manasseh, however, were not able to drive out the people living in those cities, so the Canaanites continued to live there.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet the Manassites could not take possession of those towns; but the Canaanites continued to live in that land.

Contemporary English Version
But the people of Manasseh could not capture these towns, so the Canaanites kept on living in them.

New American Bible
Since the Manassites were not able to dispossess these cities, the Canaanites continued to inhabit this region.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither could the children of Manasses overthrow these cities, but the Chanaanite began to dwell in his land.

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Neither could the children of Manasses overthrow these cities, but the Chanaanite began to dwell in his land.

Joshua 15:63 But the children of Juda could not destroy the Jebusite that dwelt in Jerusalem: and the Jebusite dwelt with the children of Juda in Jerusalem until this present day.

Joshua 16:10 And the children of Ephraim slew not the Chanaanite, who dwelt in Gazer: and the Chanaanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim until this day, paying tribute.

Exodus 23:29-33 I will not cast them out from thy face in one year; lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee. . . .

Numbers 33:52-56 Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: Beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places, . . .

Judges 1:27,28 Manasses also did not destroy Bethsan, and Thanac, with their villages; nor the inhabitants of Dor, and Jeblaam, and Mageddo, with their villages. And the Chanaanite began to dwell with them. . . .

Romans 6:12-14 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof. . . .

Context
Manasseh's Inheritance
11And the inheritance of Manasses in Issachar and in Aser, was Bethsan and its villages, and Jeblaam with its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor, with the towns thereof: the inhabitants also of Endor with the villages thereof: and in like manner the inhabitants of Thenac with the villages thereof: and the inhabitants of Mageddo with their villages, and the third part of the city of Nopheth. 12Neither could the children of Manasses overthrow these cities, but the Chanaanite began to dwell in his land.13But after that the children of Israel were grown strong, they subdued the Chanaanites, and made them their tributaries, and they did not kill them.…
Cross References
Joshua 16:10
And the children of Ephraim slew not the Chanaanite, who dwelt in Gazer: and the Chanaanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim until this day, paying tribute.

Judges 1:27
Manasses also did not destroy Bethsan, and Thanac, with their villages; nor the inhabitants of Dor, and Jeblaam, and Mageddo, with their villages. And the Chanaanite began to dwell with them.

1 Kings 9:21
Their children, that were left in the land; to wit, such as the children of Israel had not been able to destroy, Solomon made tributary unto this day.

Joshua 17:11
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