JOSHUA 17:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Beth–shean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.”
'But the hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.' — The Joseph tribes retreat from Joshua's challenge, citing a material obstacle: Canaanite iron chariots. The 'iron' (barzel) represents advanced military technology, a seemingly insuperable advantage. Their focus on this obstacle reveals a lack of faith; they forget that the walls of Jericho fell not through superior weaponry but through covenant obedience and divine power. The mention of 'Jezreel,' the future site of pivotal conflicts (Gideon, King Saul), marks this as strategically significant terrain.
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