Albert Barnes Commentary Judges 1:32

"but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out." — Judges 1:32 (ASV)

It is an evidence of the power of the Canaanite in this portion of the land that it is not said that the Canaanites dwelt among the Asherites, but that the Asherites (and Judges 1:33, Naphtali) dwelt among the Canaanites; nor are the Canaanites in Accho, Zidon, and the other Asherite cities, said to have become tributaries.