Joshua 17:12

Yet the children of Manasseh could not driue out the inhabitants of those cities, but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

But the sons of Manasseh could not take possession of these cities, because the Canaanites persisted in living in that land.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out `the inhabitants of' those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
- American Standard Version (1901)

But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.
- Basic English Bible

But the children of Manasseh could not dispossess [the inhabitants of] those cities; and the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
- Darby Bible

Yet the children of Manasseh could not expel the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
- Webster's Bible

Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
- World English Bible

And the sons of Manasseh have not been able to occupy these cities, and the Canaanite is desirous to dwell in this land,
- Youngs Literal Bible

Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites were resolved to dwell in that land.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Wesley's Notes for Joshua 17:12

17:10 His border - Manasseh's, whose portion is here described, and whose name was last mentioned. In Asher - That is, upon the tribe of Asher; for though Zebulon came between Asher and them for the greatest part of their land; yet it seems there was some necks of land, both of Ephraim's and of Manasseh's, which jutted out farther than the rest, and touched the borders of Asher. And it is certain there were many such incursions of the land of one tribe upon some parcels of another, although they were otherwise considerably distant one from the other.

17:11 Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher - As Ephraim had some cities in the tribe of Manasseh, and as it was not unusual, when the place allotted to any tribe was too narrow for it, and the next too large, to give away part from the larger to the less portion; nay, sometimes one whole tribe was taken into another; as Simeon's was into Judah's portion, when it was found too large for Judah. Inhabitants of Dor - Not the places only, but the people; whom they spared and used for servants. Three countries - The words may be rendered, the third part of that country; and so the meaning may be, that the cities and towns here mentioned are a third part of that country, that is, of that part of Issachar's and Asher's portion, in which those places lay.

17:14 Children of Joseph - That is, of Ephraim and Manasseh. Spake unto Joshua - That is, expostulated with him, when they went and saw that portion which was allotted them, and found it much short of their expectation. One portion - Either, because they really had but one lot, which was afterwards divided by the arbitrators between them. Or, because the land severally allotted to them, was but little enough for one of them.