Joshua 17:12-18
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[12] Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out [the inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. [13] It happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn't utterly drive them out. [14] The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I am a great people, because hitherto Yahweh has blessed me? [15] Joshua said to them, If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for you. [16] The children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are in Beth-shean and its towns, and they who are in the valley of Jezreel. [17] Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, You are a great people, and have great power; you shall not have one lot only: [18] but the hill-country shall be yours; for though it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and the goings out of it shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
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Joshua 17:12-18 mentions Bashan, Beth-shan, Dor, En-dor, En-tappuah, Gilead, Great Sea, Ibleam, Jordan, Kanah, Megiddo, Naphoth-dor, Shechem, Taanach, Tappuah and Valley of Jezreel.
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