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Judges 1:27
At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator addresses the readers of the tribal conquest records at the moment after reporting a fugitive’s escape to Luz. This accounts for Manasseh’s military results among the Canaanite cities.
The words — וְ/לֹא־ (ve./lo'-) = and/not; הוֹרִישׁ (ho.Rish) = it took possession of.
The thread — Joshua 17:11 lists Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, and Megiddo as the original allotment for Manasseh, and Psalms 106:34 records the broader pattern of failing to destroy the peoples as commanded.
Why it lands — It requires readers to track how incomplete obedience creates entrenched opposition and forces future generations into forced labor instead of full displacement.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Beth–shean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Cross-references
- Joshua 17:11 Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh was assigned Beth-shean, Ibleam, Dor (that is, Naphath), Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo, each with their surrounding settlements.
- Psalms 106:34 They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
- Jeremiah 48:10 Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.
- 1 Samuel 15:9 Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to devote them to destruction, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
- Exodus 23:32 You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
- Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
- Joshua 21:25 And from the half-tribe of Manasseh they were given Taanach and Gath-rimmon—two cities, together with their pasturelands.
- Judges 1:1 After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will be the first to go up and fight for us against the Canaanites?”
- Judges 5:19 Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.