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Judges - ch 1 v 21 - 36
- But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jeb'usites who dwelt in Jerusalem; so the Jeb'usites have dwelt with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
- The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel; and the LORD was with them.
- And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)
- And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, "Pray, show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you."
- And he showed them the way into the city; and they smote the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.
- And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city, and called its name Luz; that is its name to this day.
- Manas'seh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-she'an and its villages, or Ta'a-nach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megid'do and its villages; but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
- When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.
- And E'phraim did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
- Zeb'ulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Na'halol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became subject to forced labor.
- Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon, or of Ahlab, or of Achzib, or of Helbah, or of Aphik, or of Rehob;
- but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.
- Naph'tali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-she'mesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-she'mesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.
- The Amorites pressed the Danites back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain;
- the Amorites persisted in dwelling in Har-heres, in Ai'jalon, and in Sha-al'bim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily upon them, and they became subject to forced labor.
- And the border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrab'bim, from Sela and upward.
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