²⁶ He then went to the land of the Hittites,^(A) where he built a city and called it Luz,^(B) which is its name to this day.

²⁷ But Manasseh did not^(C) drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor^(D) or Ibleam^(E) or Megiddo^(F) and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites^(G) were determined to live in that land. ²⁸ When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely.^(H)