“But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.”
The Amorites persisted in inhabiting Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim, but when the hand of the house of Joseph grew strong, they put them to forced labor. — The Amorites' persistence in three Amorite cities indicates organized resistance to Israelite settlement. Yet this verse provides a resolution absent elsewhere: 'when the hand of the house of Joseph grew strong, they put them to forced labor'. The temporal clause suggests that Joseph's military consolidation eventually overcame Amorite resistance.
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