Joshua 17:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Yet the Manassites could not take possession of those towns, but the Canaanites continued to live in that land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Yet the sons of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

Common English Bible

¹² The people of Manasseh couldn’t take over these cities, and the Canaanites were determined to live in this land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² The sons of Manasseh were not able to overthrow these cities, and so the Canaanite began to dwell in their land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Neither could the children of Manasses overthrow these cities: but the Chanaanite began to dwell in his land.

Joshua 17:12 Cross References

1 Kings 9:21

their descendants who were still left in the land, whom the Israelites were unable to destroy completely—these Solomon conscripted for slave labor, and so they are to this day.

Joshua 15:63

But the people of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so the Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.

Joshua 16:10

They did not, however, drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived within Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.