597 B
597 B
cities…villages
These are towns, which are places where people live together. "Cities" are larger than towns, but "villages" are smaller than towns.
Beth Shan…Taanach…Dor…Ibleam…Megiddo
These are the names of cities. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names)
because the Canaanites were determined to live in that land
To "determine" is to firmly decide something. AT: "because the Canaanites firmly decided not to leave that land"
they forced the Canaanites to serve them with hard labor
AT: "they forced the Canaanites to do hard work for them"