27. Manasseh did not 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.

28. When ISRAEL had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.

29. Ephraim didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.

30. Zebulun didn't drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and became subject to forced labor.

31. Asher didn't drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob;

32. but the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.

33. Naphtali didn't drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labor.

34. The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;

35. but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.

36. The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

1. Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test ISRAEL by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

2. only that the generations of the children of ISRAEL might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:

3. the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

4. They were left to test ISRAEL by them, to know whether they would listen to The LORD's commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

5. The children of ISRAEL lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

6. They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

7. The children of ISRAEL did that which was evil in The LORD's sight, and forgot the LORD their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.