Text: Judges 1:27
OT Text Referred to: Joshua 17:12
Subject: Manasseh's failure to dispossess Canaanites
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Both Joshua 17:12 and Judges 1:27 use the identical Hebrew formula לֹא יָכְלוּ...לְהוֹרִישׁ (lo yakhlu...lehorish, "could not dispossess") to describe Manasseh's failure to drive out the Canaanites from Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their surrounding villages. The verbatim repetition of the same city list and the same verb of failure creates a direct quotation across books, underscoring that this was not a minor setback but a defining failure in the conquest. Both texts note that the Canaanites "persisted in dwelling" (הוֹאִיל, ho'il) in the land, marking the beginning of the coexistence that Deuteronomy 7:2 had explicitly prohibited.