OLD TESTAMENT

Judges 1:27

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27

Manasseh didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

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Verse 27. Bethsan, and so forth See Joshua 17:11.—Began. Hebrew “would dwell.” Bible.—The Israelites sinfully acquiesced, partly through slothfulness and the dislike of war, and partly that they might receive tribute from the Chanaanites. Menochius.

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