Joshua 17:13
When the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not completely drive them out.
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Deuteronomy 20:11If they accept your offer and open their gates to you, all the people who are found in it must become forced labor for you and must serve you.
Judges 1:28When Israel became strong, they forced the Canaanites to serve them with hard labor, but they never drove them out completely.
Judges 1:33The tribe of Naphtali did not drive out those who were living in Beth Shemesh, or those living in Beth Anath. So the tribe of Naphtali lived among the Canaanites (the people who were living in that land). However, the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath were forced into hard labor for Naphthali.
2 Samuel 3:1Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. David grew stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.
2 Chronicles 8:8their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed—Solomon made them into forced laborers, which they are to this day.
Philippians 4:13I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
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 →