“But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.”
The Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out. — The verse repeats the formula of coexistence with an added explanation: 'for they did not drive them out'. The causal structure suggests that voluntary choice rather than involuntary circumstance drove the failure. The phrase 'inhabitants of the land' subtly reframes Canaanites as indigenous inhabitants with a claim to territorial presence, introducing a note of quasi-legitimacy to their occupation.
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