17:15 Joshua replied to them, “Since you have so many people, 1 go up into the forest and clear out a place to live in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaites, for the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you.”
Joshua 17:18
17:18 The whole hill country 2 will be yours; though it is a forest, you can clear it and it will be entirely yours. 3 You can conquer the Canaanites, though they have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels and are strong.”
1 tnHeb “If you are a great people.”
2 tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.