Yosua 17:18

17:18 The whole hill country ¹  will be yours; though it is a forest, you can clear it and it will be entirely yours. ²  You can conquer the Canaanites, though they have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels and are strong.”

Hakim-hakim 1:19

1:19 The Lord was with the men of Judah. They conquered ³  the hill country, but they could not ⁴  conquer the people living in the coastal plain, because they had chariots with iron-rimmed wheels. ⁵ 

[17:18]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.

[17:18]  ² tn Heb “and its limits will be yours.”

[1:19]  ³ tn Or “seized possession of”; or “occupied.”

[1:19]  ⁴ tc Several textual witnesses support the inclusion of this verb.

[1:19]  ⁵ tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.