Joshua 17:16-18

The Voice

Joseph’s Descendants: ¹⁶ The hill country does not have enough room for us; and what’s more, all the Canaanites who inhabit the plains in Beth-shean and its villages and in the valley of Jezreel have iron chariots to use against us.

Joshua (to Ephraim and Manasseh, Joseph’s descendants): ¹⁷ All right; it’s true that there are many of you and that you are powerful. You should not have just one share. ¹⁸ The hill country will be yours, and you can clear the forests and possess the land to its farthest borders. But you will have to defeat the Canaanites even with their iron chariots and powerful warriors.