21. As for the Jebusites dwelling in Jerusalem, the Benjaminites did not dispossess them, so that the Jebusites live with the Benjaminites in Jerusalem to the present day.
22. The house of Joseph, too, went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.
23. The house of Joseph reconnoitered Bethel, which formerly was called Luz.
24. The scouts saw a man coming out of the city and said to him, “Tell us the way into the city, and we will show you mercy.”
25. He showed them the way into the city, and they put the city to the sword; but they let the man and his whole clan go free.
26. The man then went to the land of the Hittites, where he built a city and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.
27. Manasseh did not take possession of Beth-shean with its towns or of Taanach with its towns. Nor did they dispossess the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, those of Ibleam and its towns, or those of Megiddo and its towns. The Canaanites continued to live in this district.
28. When Israel grew stronger, they conscripted the Canaanites as laborers, but did not actually drive them out.