²² The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.

¹⁹ The Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country but could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain, because they had chariots of iron.^(A)

²⁹ also along the borders of the Manassites, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph son of Israel.

⁷ The Lord was with him; wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him.^(A)

The Territory of Ephraim

16 The allotment of the Josephites went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel;^{(A) 2} then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to Ataroth, the territory of the Archites;^{(B) 3} then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea.^(C)

⁴ The Josephites—Manasseh and Ephraim—received their inheritance.

⁴ For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and no portion was given to the Levites in the land but only towns to live in, with their pasturelands for their flocks and herds.^(A)

³² The descendants of Joseph: the descendants of Ephraim, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:^(A)