Joshua 17:13 However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites to forced labor but did not drive them out completely.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites to forced labor but did not drive them out completely.

English Standard Version
Now when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.

New American Standard Bible
It came about when the sons of Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out completely.

King James Bible
Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they imposed forced labor on the Canaanites but did not drive them out completely.

International Standard Version
Later on, when the Israelis had become strong, they forced the Canaanites to work for them, but they never did expel them completely.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
But after that the children of Israel were grown strong, they subdued the Chanaanites, and made them their tributaries, and they did not kill them.

Darby Bible Translation
And it came to pass when the children of Israel were become strong, that they made the Canaanites tributary; but they did not utterly dispossess them.

Young's Literal Translation
and it cometh to pass when the sons of Israel have been strong, that they put the Canaanite to tribute, and have not utterly dispossessed him.

Cross References

Genesis 49:15
And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant to tribute.

Joshua 16:10
And they drove not out the Canaanites that dwelled in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, and serve under tribute.

1 Kings 9:21
Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, on those did Solomon levy a tribute of slavery to this day.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

17:7-13 There was great communication between Manasseh and Ephraim. Though each tribe had its inheritance, yet they should intermix one with another, to do good offices one to another, as became those, who, though of different tribes, were all one Israel, and were bound to love as brethren. But they suffered the Canaanites to live among them, against the command of God, to serve their own ends.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Jos 17:12, 13. Canaanites Not Driven Out.

12, 13. Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out those cities—probably due to indolence, a love of ease. Perhaps a mistaken humanity, arising from a disregard or forgetfulness of the divine command, and a decreasing principle of faith and zeal in the service of God, were the causes of their failure.