Joshua 17:12
What does Joshua 17:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Joshua 17:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And the sons of Manasseh have not been able to occupy these cities, and the Canaanite is desirous to dwell in this land,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Neither could the children of Manasses overthrow these cities, but the Chanaanite began to dwell in his land.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890But the children of Manasseh could not dispossess [the inhabitants of] those cities; and the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Context
v.11And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, even the three heights.
v.12This passage
v.13And 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 1:27
And Manasseh did not drive outthe inhabitants ofBeth-shean and its towns, norofTaanach 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.
- Exodus 23:29
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.
- Numbers 33:52
then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:
- Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
- Joshua 16:10
And they drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim unto this day, and are become servants to do taskwork.
- Joshua 15:63
And as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
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