Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities. Indolence, a love of ease, perhaps a mistaken humanity, arising from a disregard or forgetfulness of the divine command, a decreasing principle of faith and zeal in the service of God, were the causes of their failure.