The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.
"They put the Canaanites to taskwork, and did not utterly drive them out ..."  (Joshua 17:13).  The efforts of critics to make it appear that Israel did not put the Canaanites to taskwork until the days of the monarchy have been frustrated by archeological discoveries showing that, "Canaanite Megiddo fell to Israel in the latter half of the twelfth century B.C., roughly a century after the main conquest."[16]  This was centuries prior to the events of  1 Kings 9.