Joshua 17:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² But the children of Menashsheh were unable to drive out the inhabitants of those cities, for the Kena‛anites desired to dwell 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 in the land after them, whom the children of Yisra’ĕl had not been able to destroy completely – from these Shelomoh raised compulsory labour, as it is to this day.

Joshua 15:63

As for the Yeḇusites, the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, the children of Yehuḏah were unable to drive them out, so the Yeḇusites have dwelt with the children of Yehuḏah at Yerushalayim to this day.

Joshua 16:10

And they did not drive out the Kena‛anites who dwelt in Gezer, so the Kena‛anites dwell among the Ephrayimites to this day and have become compulsory labour.