Joshua 17:12 - Tree of Life Version

¹² Yet the children of Manasseh could not take possession of these towns, because the Canaanites were resolved 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

even their children who remained in the land after them whom the children of Israel were not able to destroy utterly, on them Solomon imposed forced labor until this day.

Joshua 15:63

As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out. So the Jebusites continue to live among the children of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.

Joshua 16:10

But they did not drive out the Canaanites that were living in Gezer, so the Canaanites continued to live in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and became forced laborers.