When he sees how good is his resting-place and how pleasant is his land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and submit to forced labour.
Joshua 17:13 - New International Version (Anglicised) However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites to forced labour but did not drive them out completely. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When the Israelites became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor but did not utterly drive them out. American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxed strong, that they put the Canaanites to taskwork, and did not utterly drive them out. Common English Bible When the Israelites grew strong, they subjected the Canaanites to hard labor but didn’t remove them. Catholic Public Domain Version But after the sons of Israel had grown strong, they subdued the Canaanites, and made them their tributaries, but they did not kill them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But after that the children of Israel were grown strong, they subdued the Chanaanites, and made them their tributaries: and they did not kill them. |
When he sees how good is his resting-place and how pleasant is his land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and submit to forced labour.
The war between the house of Saul and the house of David lasted a long time. David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.
Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these peoples remaining in the land – whom the Israelites could not exterminate – to serve as slave labour, as it is to this day.
They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer; to this day the Canaanites live among the people of Ephraim but are required to do forced labour.
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When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labour but never drove them out completely.
Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, so these Canaanites lived among them, but Zebulun did subject them to forced labour.
Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath; but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced labourers for them.
And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres, Aijalon and Shaalbim, but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labour.