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John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 16:1-10

The Lot of JosephChs. 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 16:5-10) 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... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Joshua 16:5-8

(5-8) The border (of Ephraim’s inheritance) on the east side.—The words “on the east side” are not easy to understand. If Ataroth-addar is rightly identified as Ed-Dârieh, and Mickmethah as the plain of Mukhnah, then the line from Ataroth-addar and Beth-horon to Michmethah is a line running due north, and separating the territory of Ephraim on the east from that of Dan on the west. The line from Michmethah to Taanath-shiloh (Tana, sheet 12) and Janohah (Yânûn, south of T’ana, sheet 15), and so... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Joshua 16:1-10

CHAPTER XXV.THE INHERITANCE OF JOSEPH.Joshua Chs. 16, 17.NEXT to Judah, the most important tribe was Joseph; that is, the double tribe to which his two sons gave names, Ephraim and Manasseh. In perpetual acknowledgment of the service rendered by Joseph to the family, by keeping them alive in the famine, it was ordained by Jacob that his two sons should rank with their uncles as founders of tribes (Genesis 48:5). It was also prophetically ordained by Jacob that Ephraim, the younger son, should... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Joshua 16:1-10

4. The Portion of Ephraim CHAPTER 16 1. The lot for the children of Joseph (Joshua 16:1-4 ) 2. Ephraim’s portion (Joshua 16:5-9 ) 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,... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 16:1-10

MORE BAD RELATIONSHIPS (vv. 1-22). Samson had still not learned his lesson as regards Philistine women, and in Gaza he foolishly involved himself with a prostitute. When the Gazites knew of his being in the prostitute's house, they surrounded the place, waiting to kill him in the morning (vv. 1-2). They had locked the gate of the city, but Samson arose at midnight and without any opposition took hold of both gate posts and the doors of the gate, carrying them to the top of a hill (v.3). He... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Joshua 16:1-10

DIVISION OF THE LAND Seven chapters make a long lesson from one point of view but not from another, as the subject matter will not require the same attention as in other cases. It is about the division of the land among the tribes, and we will touch on the principal points by chapters. Joshua 13:0 Although the warfare of extermination had been carried on for some time, some think seven years, yet it was not entirely completed (Joshua 13:1 ). The Lord therefore stirs Joshua to portion out... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Joshua 16:1-10

The Distribution of the Land Joshua 15-19 WE have taken our first survey of the distribution of the land, and noticed several particulars of some consequence to ourselves; other particulars are now to be noticed. The inquiry will be, How far the distribution and the particulars associated with it are true to human nature as we know it. In answering this inquiry we shall soon see whether the Bible is an old book, in the sense of being obsolete and pointless, so far as the conditions and... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Joshua 16:5-9

I stay not to make remarks on the boundaries of those tribes, because in the present hour it is impossible to mark with any precision the extent of each; time making such ravages both on places and names. But I beg the Reader, not to forget, that it was in these grounds the noted spot of Arimathea and the famous well of Sychar stood, which opens so interesting a subject in the annals of the gospel. And more especially the retired spot of our dear Redeemer, John 11:54 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Joshua 16:6

Looketh to the north, &c. The meaning is, that the border went towards the north, by Machmethath; and then turned eastward to Thanathselo. (Challoner) --- Borders. It should be terminus. "The border turneth eastward," Septuagint. (Bonfrere) --- Janoe, twelve miles east of Sichem. (Eusebius) (4 Kings xv. 29.) read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Joshua 16:5-10

The Special Borders of Ephraim v. 5. And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side, from the east, beginning where the detailed description of v. 3. ended, was Atarothaddar, unto Beth-horon the upper, and thence onward to the west as in v. 3. v. 6. And the (northern) border, reckoning from some central point or watershed, went out toward the sea, the Mediterranean Sea, to Michmethah on the north side,... read more