Judges 1:33
Good News Translation
The tribe of Naphtali did not drive out the people living in the cities of Beth Shemesh and Bethanath. The people of Naphtali lived with the local Canaanites, but forced them to work for them.

New Revised Standard Version
Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.

Contemporary English Version
The Naphtali tribe did not get rid of the Canaanites who lived in Beth-Shemesh and Beth-Anath, but they did force the Canaanites into slave labor. The Naphtali tribe lived with Canaanites around them.

New American Bible
Nor did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh or those of Beth-anath. They settled among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land and the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath became forced laborers for them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nephthali also destroyed not the inhabitants of Bethsames, and of Bethanath: and he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the inhabitants of the land, and the Bethsamites and Bethanites were tributaries to him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nephthali also destroyed not the inhabitants of Bethsames, and of Bethanath: and he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the inhabitants of the land, and the Bethsamites and Bethanites were tributaries to him.

Naphtali

Joshua 19:32-38 The sixth lot came out to the sons of Nephtali by their families: . . .

he dwelt

Judges 1:32 And he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the inhabitants of that land, and did not slay them.

became

Judges 1:30,35 Zabulon destroyed not the inhabitants of Cetron, and Naalol: but the Chanaanite dwelt among them, and became their tributary. . . .

Psalm 18:24 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

Context
Failure to Complete the Conquest
32And he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the inhabitants of that land, and did not slay them. 33Nephthali also destroyed not the inhabitants of Bethsames, and of Bethanath: and he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the inhabitants of the land, and the Bethsamites and Bethanites were tributaries to him.34And the Amorrhite straitened the children of Dan in the mountain, and gave them not a place to go down to the plain:…
Cross References
Joshua 15:10
And it compasseth from Baala westward unto mount Seir: and passeth by the side of mount Jarim to the north into Cheslon: and goeth down into Bethsames, and passeth into Thamna.

Joshua 19:38
And Jeron and Magdalel, Horem, and Bethanath and Bethsames: nineteen cities, and their villages.

Judges 1:32
And he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the inhabitants of that land, and did not slay them.

Judges 1:34
And the Amorrhite straitened the children of Dan in the mountain, and gave them not a place to go down to the plain:

Judges 1:32
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