Joshua 17:14-16

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁴ The descendants of Joseph spoke with Joshua. They said, “Why did you give us an inheritance of only one lot and one portion, even though we are a numerous people, whom the Lord has blessed right up to the present?”

¹⁵ But Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest and clear some land for yourself in the territory of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too confining for you.”

¹⁶ The descendants of Joseph said, “The hill country is not sufficient for us, and all the Canaanites living in the valleys have iron chariots,^[a] both those in Beth Shan and its surrounding towns and those in the Valley of Jezre’el.”