And 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.
Ver. 15. If thou be a great people.] Thus he retorteth their arguments upon themselves, that if they were so numerous, they were the better able to enlarge their borders by their own endeavours, though it might be to their pains and peril.
Get thee up to the wood.] Where many hands may make light work, and soon lay all level, fit for thy use.
If mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.] And so thou want room, as bees do, that for like cause, do hang out of the hive's mouth on heaps.