Judges 1:27 meaning and explanation
At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land.
Judges 1:27, Berean Standard Bible
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Judges 1 narrates the tribes' efforts to take their allotted territories after Joshua's death. Here the narrator reports that Manasseh, one of the northern tribes, did not drive out the Canaanites from Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam and Megiddo, towns in the fertile Jezreel Valley, because those inhabitants were determined to stay.
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