Joshua 17:14

"When the children of Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out."

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From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Seeing I am a great people -The assertion can hardly have been warranted by facts, for at the censusNumbers 26:0the two tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim together were not greatly more numerous than the single tribe of Judah; and now that half the Manassites were provided for on the eastern side of Jordan, the remaining children of Joseph could hardly be stronger than the Danites or the Issacharites. The children of Joseph seem therefore to exhibit here that arrogant and jealous spirit which elsewhere characterises their conduct (Judges 8:1;Judges 12:1;2 Samuel 19:41;2 Chronicles 28:7etc.). A glance at the map shows that their complaint was in itself unreasonable.

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