Joshua 17:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.

Chariots of iron - unusually strengthened with that metal, and perhaps armed with projecting scythes.

Valley of Jezreel, х bª`eemeq (H6010) Yizªrª`e'l (H3157)] - in the plain of Jezreel. 'Emek' denotes a long, broad level between parallel ranges of hills; and the valley of Jezreel lies between Gilboa and little Hermon. Jezreel, called also Esdraelon, which is only the Greek form of the Hebrew word.

Joshua 17:16

16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.