Joshua 16 · Verse 10

Joshua 16:10

And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.
Joshua 16:10, King James Version

Joshua 16:10 in other translations

BSBBut they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.
WEBThey 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.
ASVAnd they drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim unto this day, and are become servants to do taskwork.
YLTand they have not dispossessed the Canaanite who is dwelling in Gezer, and the Canaanite dwelleth in the midst of Ephraim unto this day, and is to tribute--a servant.
DARBYBut they did not dispossess the Canaanites that dwelt at Gezer; and the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and serve under tribute.
BBEAnd the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.
WebsterAnd they did not expel the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, and serve under tribute.

What does Joshua 16:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. they drave not out the Canaanites ... but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute--This is the first mention of the fatal policy of the Israelites, in neglecting the divine command (De 20:16) to exterminate the idolaters.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 The Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer - It appears that the Canaanites were not expelled from this city till the days of Solomon, when it was taken by the king of Egypt his father-in-law, who made it a present to his daughter, Solomon's queen. See 1Kgs 9:16. And see the note on Jos 10:33. The Ephraimites, however, had so far succeeded in subjecting these people as to oblige them to pay tribute, though they could not, or at least did not, totally expel them. Of the names and places in this chapter, we may say the same as of others already mentioned. See the note on Jos 15:1. Many of those towns were small, and, we may rationally conclude, slightly built, and consequently have perished perhaps more than a thousand years ago. It would be therefore useless to look for such places now. Several of the towns in England, a land not exposed to such revolutions as that of Palestine has ever been, mentioned by Caesar and other ancient writers, are no longer discernible. Several have changed their names, and not a few their situation. Tradition states that the city of Norwich anciently stood some miles from its present situation; and we have the fullest proof that this was the case with the city of Salisbury. Such changes do not affect the truth of the ancient geography of our own country; nor can they impeach that of the sacred historian before us.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Joshua 16:10 in the original Hebrew

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וְלֹ֣אve.Lo'and notH3808
הוֹרִ֔ישׁוּho.Ri.shuthey dispossessedH3423
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖יha.ke.na.'a.Nithe Canaanite[s]H3669
הַיּוֹשֵׁ֣בhai.yo.Shevwho dweltH3427
בְּגָ֑זֶרbe.Ga.zerin GezerH1507
וַיֵּ֨שֶׁבvai.Ye.shevand he has dweltH3427
הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֜יha.ke.na.'a.Nithe Canaanite[s]H3669
בְּקֶ֤רֶבbe.Ke.revin [the] midst ofH7130
אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙'ef.Ra.yimEphraimH669
עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
הַיּ֣וֹםhai.Yomthe dayH3117
הַזֶּ֔הha.Zeh<the> thisH2088
וַיְהִ֖יvay.Hiand he becameH1961
לְמַס\־le.mas-<into> a slave gang ofH4522
עֹבֵֽד\׃\ \פ'o.VedlaboringH5647

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Cross references for Joshua 16:10

  • Judges 1:29

    Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

  • Deuteronomy 7:1-2

    When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

  • 1 Kings 9:16

    For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

  • Joshua 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.

  • Numbers 33:52-55

    Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it. And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit. But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

  • 1 Kings 9:21

    Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.

  • Joshua 15:63

    As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
they drave.
15:63; Jud 1:29; 1Ki 9:16,21
the Canaanites dwell.
Nu 33:52-55; De 7:1,2

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Context

  • Joshua 16:9

    And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

  • Joshua 16:10

    And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.

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Joshua 16:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y no echaron al Cananeo que habitaba en Gezer; antes quedó el Cananeo en medio de Ephraim, hasta hoy, y fué tributario.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Mais ils ne dépossédèrent pas le Cananéen qui habitait à Guézer; et le Cananéen a habité au milieu d’Éphraïm jusqu’à ce jour; et il a été asservi au tribut.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Aber sie trieben die Kanaaniter nicht aus, die zu Geser wohnten; und die Kanaaniter haben inmitten von Ephraim gewohnt bis auf diesen Tag, und sie wurden fronpflichtig.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et non interfecerunt filii Ephraim Chananæum, qui habitabat in Gazer: habitavitque Chananæus in medio Ephraim usque in diem hanc tributarius.