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Joshua 17:13

When the children of Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    When the children of Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.

  • KJV King James Version

    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.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to taskwork, but did not utterly drive them out.

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Cross-references (11)

Passages linked to Joshua 17:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Joshua 16:10 They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the territory of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.
  • Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
  • Deuteronomy 20:11-18 It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you. If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it. When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword; but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you. Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. But of the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you; that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
  • Judges 1:28 When Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.
  • Judges 1:30 Zebulun didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and became subject to forced labor.
  • Judges 1:33 Naphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labor.
  • Judges 1:35 but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.
  • 2 Samuel 3:1 Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.
  • 2 Chronicles 8:7-8 As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel; of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn’t consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day.
  • Ephesians 6:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
  • 2 Peter 3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jos 17:13 Yet it came to pass, when the…

Jos 17:13 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.

Ver. 13. They did not utterly.] This was their covetousness; they kept them and squeezed them, as the Papists do at this day deal by the Jews that live amongst them.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Which they were obliged to, now they were strong…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Yet it came to pass, when the children of…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. put the Canaanites to tribute] Comp. above, Jos_16:10.…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 people group
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 17:13 Throughout the period of the judges and beyond,…

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