Joshua 17:13
However, later on, when the Israelites grew strong enough, they made the Canaanites do forced labor—but they did not drive them out.
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Deuteronomy 20:11If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates to you, all the inhabitants will become your slave-laborers.
Judges 1:28When the Israelites grew stronger, they made the Canaanites do forced labor, but they never completely drove them out.
Judges 1:33Naphtali didn't drive out the people living in the towns of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath. So the people of Asher went on living there among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land because they hadn't driven them out. However, the people of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath were made to do forced labor for the people of Naphtali.
2 Samuel 3:1There was a long war between those on the side of Saul and those on the side of David. David's side grew stronger, while Saul's side grew weaker.
2 Chronicles 8:8They were the remaining descendants of the peoples that the Israelites had not destroyed. Solomon made them work as forced laborers, as they are to this day.
Philippians 4:13I can do anything through him who makes me strong!
Matthew Henry on Joshua 17:8-14
7 And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of En-tappuah. 8 Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim; 9 And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also was on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the sea: 10… Read the whole commentary →