24. The spies saw a man coming out of the city. They said to him, “Show us a way into the city. If you help us, we will be kind to you.”
25. The man showed the spies the way into the city. The men of Joseph killed the people in Bethel. But the man who helped them and his family were allowed to go free.
26. He went to the land where the Hittite people lived, and he built a city. He named the city Luz, and it is called that today.
27. There were Canaanites living in the cities of Beth Shan, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo and the small towns around them. The people of Manasseh did not force those people out of their towns. The Canaanites were determined to stay there.
28. Later, the people of Israel grew strong. They forced the Canaanites to work as slaves for them. But the Israelites did not make all the Canaanites leave their land.
29. There were Canaanites living in Gezer. And the people of Ephraim did not make all of those Canaanites leave their land. So the Canaanite people continued to live in Gezer with the people of Ephraim.
30. Some Canaanites lived in the cities of Kitron and Nahalol. The people of Zebulun did not make them leave their land. They stayed and lived with the people of Zebulun. But Zebulun made them work as slaves.
31. The people of Asher did not make the Canaanites leave the cities of Acco, Sidon, Ahlab, Aczib, Helbah, Aphek and Rehob.
32. The people of Asher did not make them leave their land. So the Canaanites continued to live with the people of Asher.
33. The people of Naphtali did not make the people leave the cities of Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath. So the people of Naphtali continued to live with the Canaanites in those cities. Those people worked as slaves for the people of Naphtali.
34. The Amorites forced the Danites back into the mountains. The Amorites would not let them come down to live in the plain.
35. The Amorites were determined to stay in Mount Heres, Aijalon and Shaalbim. But the Israelites grew stronger. Then they made the Amorites work as slaves for them.
36. The land of the Amorites was from Scorpion Pass to Sela and beyond it.