The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I am a great people, because hitherto Yahweh has blessed me?
"The hill-country shall be thine; for though it is a forest, thou shalt cut it down ...   (Joshua 17:18)." This reveals that the Josephites had two options: (1) a vast forested area of the hill-country assigned to them, an area which, according to Rea, "was vacant in 1400 B.C.,"[25] and which required only that the land be cleared and inhabited, or (2) drive out the Canaanites who occupied that powerful string of cities along the Esdraelon!  The Josephites rejected: (1) on the basis that it took alot of hard work to clear the land!  And they rejected (2) on the basis that the Canaanites possessed superior military equipment, the chariots.  They had no right to reject either of these options.