SEV Biblia, Chapter 17:12
Mas los hijos de Manasés no pudieron echar a los de aquellas ciudades; antes el cananeo quiso habitar en la tierra.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 17:12
Verse 12. Could not drive out, &c.] They had neither grace nor courage to go against their enemies, and chose rather to share their territories with those whom the justice of God had proscribed, than exert themselves to expel them. But some commentators give a different turn to this expression, and translate the passage thus: But the children of Manasseh could not (resolve) to destroy those cities, but the Canaanites consented to dwell in the land. And as they were willing to pay tribute, and the others chose to tolerate them on those terms, they agreed to dwell together: but this paying of tribute seems not to have taken place till some time after, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, &c.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out [the inhabitants] of these cities , etc.] Mentioned in ( Joshua 17:11); they had not strength at first to do it, or either were negligent and slothful, and suffered them to dwell among them, and did not take the advantage they might have done; and afterwards it was too late, they became too strong and numerous for them, at least for a time: but the Canaanites would dwell in the land ; whether they would or not.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-13 - There was great communication between Manasseh and Ephraim. Though eac tribe had its inheritance, yet they should intermix one with another to do good offices one to another, as became those, who, though of different tribes, were all one Israel, and were bound to love a brethren. But they suffered the Canaanites to live among them, agains the command of God, to serve their own ends.
Original Hebrew
ולא 3808 יכלו 3201 בני 1121 מנשׁה 4519 להורישׁ 3423 את 853 הערים 5892 האלה 428 ויואל 2974 הכנעני 3669 לשׁבת 3427 בארץ 776 הזאת׃ 2063
