Judges 1:27-36
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27aBut Manasseh did not take possession of Beth-shean and its towns or Taanach and its towns or the inhabitants of Dor and its towns or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; so bthe Canaanites persisted to live in that land. 28And it happened when Israel became strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not dispossess them completely.
29aAlso Ephraim did not dispossess the Canaanites who were living in Gezer; so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
30Zebulun did not dispossess the inhabitants of Kitron or the inhabitants of 1Nahalol; so the Canaanites lived among them and became subject to forced labor.
31Asher did not dispossess the inhabitants of Acco or the inhabitants of Sidon, or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob. 32So the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not dispossess them.
33Naphtali did not dispossess the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; and the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath became forced labor for them.
34Then the Amorites pressed the sons of Dan into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the valley; 35and the Amorites persisted in 1living in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; but the hand of the house of Joseph became heavy, and they became forced labor. 36Now the border of the Amorites ran from the aascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.