Joshua 16

And they did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day and have become forced laborers. v.10

Read chapter 16
This is a very short chapter that seems pretty mundane.  These next few chapters are like reading a deed of people's land divisions.  And if we don't know the map of the area it's really hard to picture and stay focused as you read.  Well in chapter sixteen we read of Ephraim's lot.  After all those years of wondering in the wilderness and then years of battle as they entered the promised land they are now finally getting their settling spot, the land the Lord promised them as an inheritance.  Now as with any move we all have made there comes it's hardships.  I once moved in to a house that had a sceptic tank that cost a fortune to get pumped so the owners of the house (my housemates) had us not flush when we went number one and we'd spit our toothpaste in a bucket with the running water to then throw the bucket of water outside when it got full.  It was a hassle, but we did it for almost two years.  Well this land that each tribe was inheriting had it's hassle, but they weren't expected to live with them, they were expected to defeat that hassle.  Their hassle was the Canaanites and they were to drive them completely out of the land, but we read that they did not do so.  This wasnt just putting up with a nuisance, this was disobedience to what God commanded them to do.  A one time hassle or burden of responsibility turned in to an enduring hassle because they didn't step up to take care of what they should have done in the first place.  What burden or responsibility have you experienced in a new home or place?  And how have you taken it on?