From there they traveled through the Ephraimite hill country and arrived at Micah’s house.

Their father Ephraim mourned for them many days and his brothers came to console him.

The Ephraimites ¹  were armed with bows, ²  but they retreated in the day of battle. ³ 

He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

For messengers are coming, heralding disaster, from the city of Dan and from the hills of Ephraim. ¹ 

Ephraim will be like a bird; what they value ¹  will fly away. They will not bear children – they will not enjoy pregnancy – they will not even conceive! ² 

He named the second child Ephraim, ¹  saying, ²  “Certainly ³  God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;

All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim, according to their divisions, are 108,100. They will travel third.

And the standard of the camp of the Ephraimites set out according to their companies; over his company was Elishama son of Ammihud.

Also included were the cities set apart for the tribe of Ephraim within Manasseh’s territory, along with their towns. ¹ 

(The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah, located on the border of Manasseh, belonged to the tribe of Ephraim.)

Ephraim’s territory was to the south, and Manasseh’s to the north. The sea was Manasseh’s ¹  western border and their territory ²  touched Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.

The rest of the Kohathite clans of the Levites were allotted cities from the tribe of Ephraim.

They buried him in his allotted territory ¹  in Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.

The people ¹  buried him in his allotted land ²  in Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

He said to them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Even Ephraim’s leftover grapes ¹  are better quality than Abiezer’s harvest! ² 

Then Abdon son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

Then the army marched out to the field to fight against Israel. The battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.