Joshua 17:12 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹² Yet the sons of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities; but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling 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 left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to destroy utterly—these Solomon made a forced levy of slaves, and so they are to this day.

Joshua 15:63

But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out; so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

Joshua 16:10

However they did not drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: so the Canaanites have dwelt in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have become slaves to do forced labor.