Judges 1:28 meaning and explanation
When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.
Judges 1:28, Berean Standard Bible
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Judges 1 narrates Israel's incomplete conquest after Joshua's death. Here the tribe of Manasseh, having failed to drive out the Canaanites from towns like Beth-shean and Megiddo, gained enough strength to subject them to forced labor but never removed them.
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