--- title: "The Failure to Complete the Conquest" description: "At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean,..." image: "" book: "Judges" bookId: "JDG" testament: "old" startChapter: 1 startVerse: 27 endChapter: 1 endVerse: 36 coversChapters: [1] aiTitle: "The Failure to Complete the Conquest" aiDescription: "At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean,..." hasAiStory: true location: "Canaan" persons: ["Manasseh","Israel","Canaanites","Ephraim","Zebulun","Asher","Asherites","Naphtali","Naphtalites","Amorites","Danites","Joseph"] hashtags: ["war","judgment","idolatry","deliverance"] genre: "history" readingTime: 1 type: "adaptive" slug: "JDG/the-failure-to-complete-the-conquest" canonicalId: "JDG.1.27-1.36" chronologicalOrder: 393 relatedSlugs: [] prevSlug: "JDG/the-capture-of-jerusalem-and-hebron" nextSlug: "JDG/israel-rebuked-at-bochim-joshuas-death-and-burial" --- At that time [Manasseh](/persons/manasseh) failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their villages; for the [Canaanites](/persons/canaanites) were determined to dwell in that land. When [Israel](/persons/israel) became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely. [Ephraim](/persons/ephraim) also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer. [Zebulun](/persons/zebulun) failed to drive out the inhabitants of Kitron and Nahalol; so the Canaanites lived among them and served as forced laborers. [Asher](/persons/asher) failed to drive out the inhabitants of Acco, Sidon, Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik, and Rehob. So the [Asherites](/persons/asherites) lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, because they did not drive them out. [Naphtali](/persons/naphtali) failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath. So the [Naphtalites](/persons/naphtalites) also lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, but the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath served them as forced laborers. The [Amorites](/persons/amorites) forced the [Danites](/persons/danites) into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain. And the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. But when the house of [Joseph](/persons/joseph) grew in strength, they pressed the Amorites into forced labor. And the border of the Amorites extended from the Ascent of Akrabbim to Sela and beyond.

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