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Joshua 17:13

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Canaanites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Manasseh, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Foreigner;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Lord;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Joshua;   Manasseh;   Taanach;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lots;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Canaanites, the ;   Tribute;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Manasseh;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adoniram;   Ephraim (1);   Tax;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Confiscation and Forfeiture;   Megiddo;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they imposed forced labor on the Canaanites but did not drive them out completely.
Hebrew Names Version
It happened, when the children of Yisra'el had grown strong, that they put the Kana`anim to forced labor, and didn't utterly drive them out.
King James Version
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.
Lexham English Bible
And it happened, when the Israelites grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor but never drove 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 Century Version
When the Israelites grew strong, they forced the Canaanites to work for them, although they did not force them to leave the land.
New English Translation
Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.
Amplified Bible
When the Israelites became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out completely.
New American Standard Bible
And 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Neuerthelesse, when the children of Israel were strong, they put the Canaanites vnder tribute, but cast them not out wholy.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now it happened that when the sons of Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not dispossess them completely.
Contemporary English Version
When the Israelites grew stronger, they made the Canaanites in these towns work as their slaves, though they never did force them to leave.
Complete Jewish Bible
After the people of Isra'el had become strong, they made the Kena‘ani do heavy labor but didn't completely drive them out.
Darby 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.
Easy-to-Read Version
But the Israelites grew strong. When this happened, they forced the Canaanites to work for them. But they did not force them to leave that land.
George Lamsa Translation
But when the children of Israel became strong, they subdued the Canaanites and made them pay tribute; but did not utterly destroy them.
Good News Translation
Even when the Israelites became stronger, they did not drive out all the Canaanites, but they did force them to work for them.
Literal Translation
And it happened, when the sons of Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute, but did not completely dispossess them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Howbeit whan the children of Israel were able, they made the Cananites tributaries, and droue them not out.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And when the children of Israel had become strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, in place of driving them out.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neuerthelesse, assoone as the children of Israel were waxed strong, they put the Chanaanites vnder tribute, but expelled them not.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to taskwork, but did not utterly drive them out.
King James Version (1611)
Yet it came to passe when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute: but did not vtterly driue them out.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it came to pass that when the children of Israel were strong, they made the Chananites subject, but they did not utterly destroy them.
English Revised Version
And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to taskwork, and did not utterly drive them out.
Berean Standard Bible
However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they put the Canaanites to forced labor; but they failed to drive them out completely.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli aftir that the sones of Israel weren stronge, thei maden suget Cananeis, and maden tributaries to hem silf, and killiden not Cananeis.
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.
Update Bible Version
And it came to pass, when the sons of Israel were waxed strong, that they put the Canaanites to slave labor, and did not completely drive them out.
Webster's Bible Translation
Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel had become strong, that they subjected the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly expel them.
World English Bible
It happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn't utterly drive them out.
New King James Version
And it happened, when the children of Israel grew strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.
New Living Translation
Later, however, when the Israelites became strong enough, they forced the Canaanites to work as slaves. But they did not drive them out of the land.
New Life Bible
When the people of Israel became strong, they made the Canaanites work for them. But they did not drive all of them out.
New Revised Standard
But when the Israelites grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
but, when the sons of Israel had waxed strong, they put the Canaanites under tribute, - though they, dispossessed, them not.
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.
Revised Standard Version
But when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
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.

Contextual Overview

7The boundary of Manasseh went from Asher all the way to Micmethath, just opposite Shechem, then ran southward to the people living at En Tappuah. (The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah itself on the border of Manasseh belonged to the Ephraimites.) The boundary continued south to the Brook Kanah. (The cities there belonged to Ephraim although they lay among the cities of Manasseh.) The boundary of Manasseh ran north of the brook and ended at the Sea. The land to the south belonged to Ephraim; the land to the north to Manasseh, with the Sea as their western border; they meet Asher on the north and Issachar on the east. 11 Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh also held Beth Shan, Ibleam, and the people of Dor, Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo, together with their villages, and the third in the list is Naphoth. 12The people of Manasseh never were able to take over these towns—the Canaanites wouldn't budge. But later, when the Israelites got stronger, they put the Canaanites to forced labor. But they never did get rid of them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

waxen strong: Judges 1:28, 2 Samuel 3:1, Ephesians 6:10, Philippians 4:13, 2 Peter 3:18

put the: Joshua 16:10, Deuteronomy 20:11-18, Judges 1:30, Judges 1:33, Judges 1:35, 2 Chronicles 8:7, 2 Chronicles 8:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:29 - in one year

Cross-References

Genesis 37:36
In Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, manager of his household affairs.
Genesis 39:1
After Joseph had been taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelites, Potiphar an Egyptian, one of Pharaoh's officials and the manager of his household, bought him from them.
Exodus 21:2
"When you buy a Hebrew slave, he will serve six years. The seventh year he goes free, for nothing. If he came in single he leaves single. If he came in married he leaves with his wife. If the master gives him a wife and she gave him sons and daughters, the wife and children stay with the master and he leaves by himself. But suppose the slave should say, ‘I love my master and my wife and children—I don't want my freedom,' then his master is to bring him before God and to a door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl, a sign that he is a slave for life.
Exodus 21:16
"If someone kidnaps a person, the penalty is death, regardless of whether the person has been sold or is still held in possession.
Nehemiah 5:8
The "Great Protest" A great protest was mounted by the people, including the wives, against their fellow Jews. Some said, "We have big families, and we need food just to survive." Others said, "We're having to mortgage our fields and vineyards and homes to get enough grain to keep from starving." And others said, "We're having to borrow money to pay the royal tax on our fields and vineyards. Look: We're the same flesh and blood as our brothers here; our children are just as good as theirs. Yet here we are having to sell our children off as slaves—some of our daughters have already been sold—and we can't do anything about it because our fields and vineyards are owned by somebody else." I got really angry when I heard their protest and complaints. After thinking it over, I called the nobles and officials on the carpet. I said, "Each one of you is gouging his brother." Then I called a big meeting to deal with them. I told them, "We did everything we could to buy back our Jewish brothers who had to sell themselves as slaves to foreigners. And now you're selling these same brothers back into debt slavery! Does that mean that we have to buy them back again?" They said nothing. What could they say?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxed strong,.... Increased in numbers, and became superior to the Canaanites, not only those of the tribe of Manasseh, but of the other tribes also:

that they put the Canaanites to tribute; they did not take away their lives, as they were commanded to do, but made them tributaries to them, which seems to arise from a covetous disposition, and done for the sake of gain:

but did not utterly drive them out; which they were ordered to do, and could now have done; for if they were able to make them pay tribute to them, they had power sufficient to drive them out, or destroy them, and therefore broke the commandment of God, Deuteronomy 7:1.


 
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