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Joshua 17:14 KJV
Joshua · chapter 17 · verse 14
And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?Joshua 17:14 · King James Version
Joshua 17:14 in context
12Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
13Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, but did not utterly drive them out.
14And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?
15And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
16And 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 Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- portionchebela rope , especially a measuring lineH2256 →
- inheritnachălâhproperly, something inheritedH5159 →
- JosephYôwçêphJoseph, the name of seven IsraelitesH3130 →
- JoshuaYᵉhôwshûwaʻJehoshua , the Jewish leaderH3091 →
- sayingʼâmarto sayH559 →
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Here, I. The children of Joseph quarrel with their lot; if they had had any just cause to quarrel with it, we have reason to think Joshua would have relieved them, by adding to it, or altering it, which it does not appear he did.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-18