15 At this Joshua said to them: “If you are a numerous people, go your way up to the forest, and you must cut it down for yourself there in the land of the Perʹiz·zites+ and the Rephʹa·im,+ because the mountainous region+ of Eʹphra·im has become too narrow for you.”

16 Then the sons of Joseph said: “The mountainous region is not enough for us, and there are war chariots+ with iron scythes among all the Caʹnaan·ites dwelling in the land of the low plain, both those who are in Beth-sheʹan+ and its dependent towns and those who are in the low plain of Jezʹre·el.”+