Judges 1... first (new) post!

From Judges 1:27-30.

But Manasseh did not drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor or Ibleam or Megiddo and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that land. When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely. Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, but the Canaanites continued to live there among them. Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, who remained among them; but they did subject them to forced labor.

As I was reading the end of this chapter, I found it interesting that many of the Canaanite peoples were not completely driven out of the area where Israel settled... instead, they were subjected to "forced labor". And isn't "forced labor" a nicer term for SLAVERY?

There's a certain irony that after their slavery in Egypt, the nation of Israel was so quick to subject another people group to the same treatment. I guess human nature is cruel like that.