CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Joshua 17 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/joshua/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/joshua/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Joshua 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../joshua/16.htm" title="Joshua 16">◄</a> Joshua 17 <a href="../joshua/18.htm" title="Joshua 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Manasseh's Land West of the Jordan River</h3><p class="par"><span class="v6_17_1"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.17.1-Josh.17.6" class="v6_17_1">1-6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.17.1-Josh.17.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Manasseh was Joseph's oldest son, and Machir was Manasseh's oldest son. Machir had a son named Gilead, and some of his descendants had already received the regions of Gilead and Bashan because they were good warriors. The other clans of the Manasseh tribe descended from Gilead's sons Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. The following is a description of the land they received.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_17_1">Hepher's son Zelophehad did not have any sons, but he did have five daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. One day the clans that were descendants of Zelophehad's five daughters went to the priest Eleazar, Joshua, and the leaders of Israel. The people of these clans said, “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> told Moses to give us land just as he gave land to our relatives.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.17.1-Josh.17.6!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_17_1">Joshua followed the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s instructions and gave land to these five clans, as he had given land to the five clans that had descended from Hepher's brothers.<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.17.1-Josh.17.6!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> So Manasseh's land west of the Jordan River was divided into ten parts.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_17_7"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.17.7" class="v6_17_7">7</span>The land of the Manasseh tribe went from its northern border with the Asher tribe south to Michmethath, which is to the east of Shechem. The southern border started there, but curved even farther south to include the people who lived around Tappuah Spring.<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.17.7!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v6_17_8"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.17.8" class="v6_17_8">8</span>The town of Tappuah was on Manasseh's border with Ephraim. Although the land around Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, the town itself belonged to Ephraim.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_17_9"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.17.9-Josh.17.10" class="v6_17_9">9-10</span>Then the border went west to the Kanah Gorge and ran along the northern edge of the gorge to the Mediterranean Sea. The land south of the gorge belonged to Ephraim. And even though there were a few towns that belonged to Ephraim north of the gorge, the land north of the gorge belonged to Manasseh.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_17_9">The western border of Manasseh was the Mediterranean Sea, and the tribe shared a border with the Asher tribe on the northwest and with the Issachar tribe on the northeast.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_17_11"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.17.11" class="v6_17_11">11</span>Manasseh was supposed to have the following towns with their surrounding villages inside the borders of Issachar's and Asher's tribal lands:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v6_17_11">Beth-Shan, Ibleam, Endor, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, which is also called Naphath.<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.17.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="m"><span class="v6_17_12"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.17.12" class="v6_17_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.17.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But the people of Manasseh could not capture these towns, so the Canaanites kept on living in them. </span><span class="v6_17_13"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.17.13" class="v6_17_13">13</span>When the Israelites grew stronger, they made the Canaanites in these towns work as their slaves, though they never did force them to leave.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Joseph's Descendants Ask for More Land</h3><p class="par"><span class="v6_17_14"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.17.14" class="v6_17_14">14</span>One day the Joseph tribes<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.17.14!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> came to Joshua and asked, “Why didn't you give us more land? The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has always been kind to us, and we have too many people for this small region.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_17_15"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.17.15" class="v6_17_15">15</span>Joshua replied, “If there's not enough room for you in the hill country of Ephraim, then go into the forest that belonged to the Perizzites and the Rephaim.<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.17.15!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Clear out the trees and make more room for yourselves there.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_17_16"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.17.16" class="v6_17_16">16</span>“Even if we do that,” they answered, “there still won't be enough land for us in the hill country. And we can't move down into Jezreel Valley, because the Canaanites who live in Beth-Shan and in other parts of the valley have iron chariots.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_17_17"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.17.17" class="v6_17_17">17</span>“Your tribes do have a lot of people,” Joshua admitted. “I'll give you more land. Your tribes are powerful, </span><span class="v6_17_18"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.17.18" class="v6_17_18">18</span>so you can have the rest of the hill country, but it's a forest, and you'll have to cut down the trees and clear the land. You can also have Jezreel Valley. Even though the Canaanites there are strong and have iron chariots, you can force them to leave the valley.”</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.1-6 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">The <char style="nd">Lord</char> told Moses … relatives: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See Numbers 27.1-11; 36.1-12.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.1-6 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the clans that were descendants of Zelophehad's five daughters … Hepher's brothers: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “Zelophehad's five daughters went to the priest Eleazar, Joshua, and the leaders of Israel. The five sisters said, ‘The <char style="nd">Lord</char> told Moses to give us land just as he gave land to our relatives.’ Joshua followed the <char style="nd">Lord</char>'s instructions and gave land to these five sisters, as he had given land to Hepher's brothers.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.7 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">to include … Tappuah Spring: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew; one ancient translation “to Jassiben-Tappuah” or “and turns toward Tappuah Spring.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.11 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Dor … Naphath: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.14 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Joseph tribes: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Ephraim and the half of Manasseh that lived west of the Jordan River.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.15 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Rephaim: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 12.4.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Bible text from the Contemporary English Version 2nd Edition (CEV®) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.cev.bible">www.cev.bible</a>. Discover .BIBLE resources for your ministry at <a href="http://www.get.bible/cev">www.get.bible/cev</a></span></p><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /><br /><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../joshua/16.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Joshua 16"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Joshua 16" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../joshua/18.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Joshua 18"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Joshua 18" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/joshua/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>