Joshua 17:14-16

International Standard Version

Protests by the Tribe of Joseph

¹⁴ At that time, the descendants of Joseph asked Joshua, “Why did you give us^[a] only one allotment and portion for an inheritance, since we’re numerous and the Lord has blessed us all along?”

¹⁵ So Joshua replied to them, “Since you’re so numerous, go up to the forest and clear ground there for yourselves in the territory where the Perizzites and Rephaim^[b] are, because the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

¹⁶ The descendants of Joseph replied, “The hill country isn’t sufficient for us, but all the Canaanites who live on the plain have iron chariots, both those in Beth-shean and its villages as well as the inhabitants of the Jezreel Valley.”