Joshua 16:3

_AND GOETH OUT FROM BETHEL TO LUZ, AND PASSETH ALONG UNTO THE BORDERS OF ARCHI TO ATAROTH,_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

Verse Joshua 16:3. _BETH-HORON THE NETHER_] This city was about twelve miles from Jerusalem, on the side of _Nicopolis_, formerly _Emmaus_. - CALMET. Joshua 10:10....

OF JAPHLETI - Rather “of the Japhletite.” All history of the name is lost....

EXPOSITION THE INHERITANCE OF EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH. JOSHUA 16:1 FELL. Literally_ came forth, i.e; _out of the urn. THE WATER OF JERICHO. "This is the present fountain of es Sultan, half an hour to the west of Ribs, the only large fountain in the neighbourhood of Jericho, whose waters spread over the plain and form a small brook" (or small stream, according to Von Schubert)," which flows in the rainy season through the Wady Kelt into the Jordan" (Keil and Delitzsch). This spring, which rises amid the nebek trees and the wheat fields, "springs from the earth at the eastern base of a little knoll; the water is sweet, clear, and agreeable, neither cold nor warm" (Ritter). It flows, he adds, into a basin nine feet b

AND GOETH DOWN WESTWARD TO THE COAST OF JAPHLETI,.... This place is now unknown, though no doubt well known to the sons of Joseph, when this lot fell to them, and its border was described: UNTO THE COAST OF BETHHORON THE NETHER: so called to distinguish it from Bethhoron the upper, Joshua 16:5; this was about twelve miles from Jerusalem; Joshua 10:10; and to Gezer: which was about a day's journey from Bethhoron, as appears from the passages in the Apocrypha: "39 So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bethhoron, where an host out of Syria met him. 40 But Judas pitched in Adasa with three thousand men, and there he prayed, saying,... 45 Then they pursued after them a day's journey, from Adasa unto Gazera, sounding an alarm after them with their trumpets.'' (1 Ma

4. THE PORTION OF EPHRAIM CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The lot for the children of Joseph (Joshua 16:1)_ 2. Ephraim's portion (Joshua 16:5) 3. Ephraim's failure (Joshua 16:10) A wonderful lot was that of Joseph, beginning at Jordan, the river of death, up to Bethel, which means “the house of God.” Then the portion of Ephraim comes first. Ephraim with the blessed inheritance to be “doubly fruitful” (the meaning of Ephraim) fails. “They drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer.” Josephus, the Jewish historian, remarks on this: “They grew effeminate as to fighting any more against their enemies, but applied themselves to the cultivation of the land, which producing them great plenty and riches, they

JOSHUA 16 F. This section deals with the inheritance of the Joseph tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh. It is composite, but the different parts are easily separated. The old narrative speaks of the tribe of Joseph, the new, _i.e._ P, of Ephraim and Manasseh. The section begins with three verses (Joshua 16:1) from the older source which give the dividing line of the lot of Joseph, _i.e._ the boundary between the N. and S.; the line goes from Jordan near Jericho, leaving Jericho on the S., and is drawn by Bethel, Bethhoron, and Gezer. One would naturally expect that this line would be the same as the southern border of Ephraim which P gives in the following verses (Joshua 16:4). But for some reason, which we can only conjecture, the borders of Ephraim are confused and unintelligible. It has been suggested tha

_and goeth down westward_ Hence the boundary passed unto the "coast" of Beth-horon the nether, i.e. the "Lower Beth-horon," and Gezer, to the Mediterranean Sea at Jaffa. _Japhleti_ is unknown. _Beth-horon_ See above, ch. Joshua 10:10-11. _Gezer_ See above ch. Joshua 10:33. It probably lay between Beth-horon and Lydda. "The territory assigned to -the house of Joseph" may be roughly estimated at 55 miles from east to west, by 70 from north to south, a portion about equal in extent to the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk combined....

_The Territory of the Children of Joseph Joshua 16:1-4_ And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Beth-el, 2 And goeth out from Beth-el to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth, 3 And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea. 4 So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance. _1._ Who were the children of Joseph) Joshua 16:1 Joseph had two childrenManasseh, the first-born; and Ephraim, his younger brother. In Joshua's day, the members of the two tribes are described as the children of Joseph. These two so

THE LOT OF JOSEPH Chs. 16, 17 describe the territories of Ephraim and the W. half of Manasseh. Vv. 1-4 of Joshua 16 give the general frontiers of the combined tribes, the rest of the chapter (Joshua 16:5) the frontiers of Ephraim as distinct from W. Manasseh. The territory allotted to the two tribes comprised the central and most fertile part of Palestine. The S. border ran from Jericho through Bethel to Beth-horon and the sea; and the N. border from Mt. Carmel, along the S. border of the Plain of Esdraelon to the Jordan....