¹³ Now when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites ^(A)to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.

¹⁰ However, ^(A)they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made ^(B)to do forced labor.

¹³ I can do all things ^(A)through him who strengthens me.

¹⁸ But ^(A)grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. ^(B)To him be the glory both now and to the day of ^(C)eternity. Amen.

The Whole Armor of God

¹⁰ Finally, ^(A)be strong in the Lord and in ^(B)the strength of his might.

^7 (A)All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel, ⁸ from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed—these Solomon drafted ^(B)as forced labor, and so they are to this day.

Abner Joins David

3 There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.

³⁵ The Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, ^(A)in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily on them, and they became subject to forced labor.

³³ Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of ^(A)Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, so they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.

³⁰ Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of ^(A)Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them, but became subject to forced labor.