SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:10
Y no echaron al cananeo que habitaba en Gezer; antes quedó el cananeo en medio de Efraín, hasta hoy, y fue tributario.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 16:10
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 1 Kings ix. 16. And see the note on chap. x. 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 chap. xv. 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. And they drove not out the Canaanites which dwelt in Gezer , etc.] Which was the border of their tribe length ways, and was near the sea, ( Joshua 16:3); in this they did not obey the command of God, and either they did not drive them out, because they could not, God not delivering them up into their hands, because of their sins; or through their slothfulness, or it may be through covetousness, being willing to make some advantage to themselves by them, being a trading people, which seems to be intended in the next clause: but the Canaanites dwelt among the Ephraimites unto this day ; which Joshua, the writer of this book, might truly say, and be no objection to it, since the same is observed after his death, ( Judges 1:29); and indeed they continued to dwell there until the times of Solomon, when it was taken by Pharaoh king of Egypt, and given as a present to his daughter, the wife of Solomon, ( 1 Kings 9:15-17); and though this clause does not furnish out an argument against the writing of this book by Joshua, yet, from the instance given, it appears it must have been written before the times of Solomon, and so not by Ezra, as some: and serve under tribute ; so that they were under their power, and therefore could have driven them out, or slain them, as by the command of God they should; but they spared them for the sake of the tribute they received from them, which seems to agree with the character of the Ephraimites, ( Hosea 12:8).
Matthew Henry Commentary
The sons of Joseph.
--This and the following chapter should not be separated. They give the lots of Ephraim and Manasseh, the children of Joseph, who, next to Judah, were to have the post of honour, and therefore had the first an best portion in the northern part of Canaan, as Judah in the souther part. God's people now, as of old, suffer his enemies to remain Blessed Lord, when will all our enemies be subdued? 1Co 15:26. Do tho drive them all out; thou alone canst do it. These settled boundarie may remind us, that our situation and provision in this life, as wel as our future inheritance, are appointed by the only wise and righteou God, and we should be content with our portion, since he knows what is best for us, and all we have is more than we deserve __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ולא 3808 הורישׁו 3423 את 853 הכנעני 3669 היושׁב 3427 בגזר 1507 וישׁב 3427 הכנעני 3669 בקרב 7130 אפרים 669 עד 5704 היום 3117 הזה 2088 ויהי 1961 למס 4522 עבד׃ 5647
