They didn't drive out the Kena`anim who lived in Gezer: but the Kena`anim dwell in the midst of Efrayim to this day, and are become servants to do forced labor.
They set apart Kedesh in the Galil in the hill country of Naftali, and Shekhem in the hill country of Efrayim, and Kiryat-Arba (the same is Chevron) in the hill country of Yehudah.
Avimelekh the son of Yerubba`al went to Shekhem to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,