Joshua 17:12

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But the men of Manasseh were unable to conquer these cities; the Canaanites managed to remain in those areas.

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  • Exod 23:29-33 : 29 I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land. 31 I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you. 32 “You must make no covenant with them or with their gods. 33 They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
  • Judg 1:27-28 : 27 The men of Manasseh did not conquer Beth Shean, Taanach, or their surrounding towns. Nor did they conquer the people living in Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo or their surrounding towns. The Canaanites managed to remain in those areas. 28 Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.
  • Rom 6:12-14 : 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires, 13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
  • Num 33:52-56 : 52 you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places. 53 You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it. 54 You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone’s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral tribes. 55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those whom you allow to remain will be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your side, and will cause you trouble in the land where you will be living. 56 And what I intended to do to them I will do to you.”
  • Josh 15:63 : 63 The men of Judah were unable to conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this very day.
  • Josh 16:10 : 10 The Ephraimites did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites live among the Ephraimites to this very day and do hard labor as their servants.

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  • Judg 1:27-35
    9 verses
    89%

    27The men of Manasseh did not conquer Beth Shean, Taanach, or their surrounding towns. Nor did they conquer the people living in Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo or their surrounding towns. The Canaanites managed to remain in those areas.

    28Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

    29The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.

    30The men of Zebulun did not conquer the people living in Kitron and Nahalol. The Canaanites lived among them and were forced to do hard labor.

    31The men of Asher did not conquer the people living in Acco or Sidon, nor did they conquer Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphek, or Rehob.

    32The people of Asher live among the Canaanites residing in the land because they did not conquer them.

    33The men of Naphtali did not conquer the people living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath. They live among the Canaanites residing in the land. The Canaanites living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath were forced to do hard labor for them.

    34The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in the coastal plain.

    35The Amorites managed to remain in Har Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. Whenever the tribe of Joseph was strong militarily, the Amorites were forced to do hard labor.

  • Josh 17:13
    82%

    13Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

  • Josh 17:11
    81%

    11Within Issachar’s and Asher’s territory Manasseh was assigned Beth Shean, Ibleam, the residents of Dor, the residents of En Dor, the residents of Taanach, the residents of Megiddo, the three of Napheth, and the towns surrounding all these cities.

  • Josh 13:13
    76%

    13But the Israelites did not conquer the Geshurites and Maacathites; Geshur and Maacah live among Israel to this very day.

  • Josh 16:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9Also included were the cities set apart for the tribe of Ephraim within Manasseh’s territory, along with their towns.

    10The Ephraimites did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites live among the Ephraimites to this very day and do hard labor as their servants.

  • 1 Chr 7:29
    75%

    29On the border of Manasseh’s territory were Beth Shean and its surrounding towns, Taanach and its surrounding towns, Megiddo and its surrounding towns, and Dor and its surrounding towns. The descendants of Joseph, Israel’s son, lived here.

  • Josh 17:5-9
    5 verses
    74%

    5Manasseh was allotted ten shares of land, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan,

    6for the daughters of Manasseh were assigned land among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.

    7The border of Manasseh went from Asher to Micmethath which is near Shechem. It then went south toward those who live by En Tappuah.

    8(The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah, located on the border of Manasseh, belonged to the tribe of Ephraim.)

    9The border then descended southward to the Valley of Kanah. Ephraim was assigned cities there among the cities of Manasseh, but the border of Manasseh was north of the valley and ended at the sea.

  • Judg 1:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19The LORD was with the men of Judah. They conquered the hill country, but they could not conquer the people living in the coastal plain, because they had chariots with iron-rimmed wheels.

    20Caleb received Hebron, just as Moses had promised. He drove out the three Anakites.

    21The men of Benjamin, however, did not conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites live with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this very day.

  • Josh 17:16-18
    3 verses
    72%

    16The descendants of Joseph said,“The whole hill country is inadequate for us, and the Canaanites living down in the valley in Beth Shean and its surrounding towns and in the Valley of Jezreel have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels.”

    17Joshua said to the family of Joseph– to both Ephraim and Manasseh:“You have many people and great military strength. You will not have just one tribal allotment.

    18The whole hill country will be yours; though it is a forest, you can clear it and it will be entirely yours. You can conquer the Canaanites, though they have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels and are strong.”

  • 2 Kgs 21:9
    72%

    9But they did not obey, and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed from before the Israelites.

  • Josh 17:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land. The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors. They were assigned Gilead and Bashan.

    2The rest of Manasseh’s descendants were also assigned land by their clans, including the descendants of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These are the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph by their clans.

  • Josh 14:4
    71%

    4The descendants of Joseph were considered as two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites were allotted no territory, though they were assigned cities in which to live, along with the grazing areas for their cattle and possessions.

  • Neh 9:24
    71%

    24Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.

  • Josh 15:63
    70%

    63The men of Judah were unable to conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this very day.

  • 2 Chr 33:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9But Manasseh misled the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.

    10The LORD confronted Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.

  • Josh 16:4
    70%

    4Joseph’s descendants, Manasseh and Ephraim, were assigned their land.

  • 1 Chr 6:61
    70%

    61The rest of Kohath’s descendants were allotted ten cities in the territory of the half-tribe of Manasseh.

  • Josh 21:25
    69%

    25From the half-tribe of Manasseh they assigned Taanach and Gath Rimmon, along with the grazing areas of each– a total of two cities.

  • Josh 13:29
    69%

    29Moses assigned land to the half-tribe of Manasseh by its clans.

  • Josh 13:7
    69%

    7Now, divide up this land among the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

  • Num 32:39
    69%

    39The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

  • Judg 2:23
    69%

    23This is why the LORD permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; he did not hand them over to Joshua.

  • Josh 13:31
    69%

    31Half of Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities in the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were assigned to the descendants of Makir son of Manasseh, to half the descendants of Makir by their clans.

  • Judg 2:21
    69%

    21So I will no longer remove before them any of the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died,

  • Judg 3:5
    69%

    5The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

  • 1 Chr 5:23
    68%

    23The Half-Tribe of Manasseh The half-tribe of Manasseh settled in the land from Bashan as far as Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They grew in number.

  • 1 Chr 9:3
    68%

    3Some from the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim and Manasseh settled in Jerusalem.

  • Num 33:55
    68%

    55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those whom you allow to remain will be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your side, and will cause you trouble in the land where you will be living.

  • Josh 18:2
    68%

    2seven Israelite tribes had not been assigned their allotted land.

  • Gen 13:6
    68%

    6But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.

  • Num 13:28
    67%

    28But the inhabitants are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.