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Judges 1:23-34 Amplified Bible (AMP)

23. And the house of Joseph was sent to spy out Bethel. The name of the city formerly had been Luz.

24. And the spies saw a man coming out of the city and they said to him, Show us, we pray you, the way into the city and we will show you mercy.

25. When he showed them the entrance to the city, they smote the city with the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.

26. And the man went into the land of the Hittites and built a city and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.

27. Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or of Taanach or Dor or Ibleam or Megiddo and their villages, but the Canaanites remained in that land.

28. When Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor but did not utterly drive them out.

29. Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer, but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

30. Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron or of Nahalol, but the Canaanites dwelt among them and were put to forced labor.

31. Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Acco or of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob;

32. But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out.

33. Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh or of Beth-anath, but dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; but the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.

34. The Amorites forced the Danites back into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down into the plain;