^{12 Ref} But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.

^{13 Ref} And when the children of Israel had become strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, in place of driving them out.

^{14 Ref} Then the children of Joseph said to Joshua, Why have you given me only one part and one stretch of land for my heritage? For through the blessing given to me by the Lord up to now, I am a great people.

^{15 Ref} Then Joshua said to them, If you are such a great people, go up into the woodlands, clearing a place there for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, if the hill-country of Ephraim is not wide enough for you.

^{16 Ref} And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites living in the valley have iron war-carriages, those in Beth-shean and its towns as well as those in the valley of Jezreel.