Joshua 16:2,Joshua 16:7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 16:1-4

Though Joseph was one of the younger sons of Jacob, yet he was his eldest by his most just and best beloved wife Rachel, was himself his best beloved son, and had been the greatest ornament and support of his family, kept it from perishing in a time of famine, and had been the shepherd and stone of Israel, and therefore his posterity were very much favoured by the lot. Their portion lay in the very heart of the land of Canaan. It extended from Jordan in the east (Josh. 16:1) to the sea, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 16:2

And goeth out from Bethel to Luz ,.... For though these two places in time became one, yet they were originally distinct. Bethel, at which Jacob stopped, and who gave it its name, was a field adjacent to the city of Luz, Genesis 38:11 ; and therefore with propriety may be, as they here are, distinguished: and passeth along unto the borders Archi to Ataroth ; or to Archiataroth; these two words being the name of one and the same place, and to be joined as they are, in the Greek version,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 16:2

From Bethel to Luz - From Genesis 28:19 ; (note) it appears that the place which Jacob called Beth-el was formerly called Luz; see the note there: but here they seem to be two distinct places. It is very likely that the place where Jacob had the vision was not in Luz, but in some place within a small distance of that city or village, (see the note on Genesis 28:12 ;), and that sometimes the whole place was called Beth-el, at other times Luz, and sometimes, as in the case above, the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 16:2

From Bethel to Luz. Like Jerusalem and AE lia Capitolina, or old and new Carthage, the new city did not coincide precisely in its site with the old one (see Joshua 18:13 ; also Genesis 28:19 ; Genesis 35:6 ; 1:23 ). Bethel was probably built, as far as could be ascertained, on the spot near the Canaanitish city where the wanderer Jacob spent the night in which the famous vision appeared to him (see Genesis 28:11 ). Knobel, however, renders literally, Bethel-Luzah, as though the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 16:2

Of Archi - (Read “of the Archite,” also a designation of David’s friend Hushai (2 Samuel 15:32; 2 Samuel 16:16, etc.). The word is derived from Erech Genesis 10:10. But whether there was in the neighborhood of Bethel a place bearing this Babylonian name, or whether a colony from the East had settled in this spot and brought the name with them, is unknown.Ataroth - Called Joshua 16:5; Joshua 18:13 Ataroth-adar (= “crowns of fame or greatness”) perhaps to distinguish it from two other places... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 16:2

Joshua 16:2. From Bethel to Luz Dupin translates this Bethel-Luz, and Dr. Waterland, Bethel, which is Luz; for we sometimes find them mentioned as one and the same place, as Joshua 18:13; Judges 1:23; and it is probable that in a length of time they were united, and the inhabitants of the former went to the latter. The borders of Archi to Ataroth Or rather, the borders of Archi-Ataroth, as both the Seventy and the Vulgate render it, and as the words are in the Hebrew, this being the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joshua 16:1-10

The Joseph tribes (16:1-17:18)Ephraim and the western half of Manasseh together occupied most of the central portion of Canaan between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea (16:1-4). The southern part of this territory belonged to Ephraim (5-10), the northern part to Manasseh (17:1). (The other half of Manasseh had already received its allotment east of Jordan.)Western Manasseh was divided between six major family groups. No details are given concerning portions received by five of these... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 16:2

Beth-el to Lux, Compare Genesis 28:19 and Judges 1:26 , the "Mount" Beth-el of Joshua 16:1 . of Archi = the Archite. Compare 2Sa 16:32 ; 2 Samuel 16:16 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joshua 16:2

Ver. 2. And goeth out from Beth-el to Luz— If now and then Luz and Beth-el are mentioned as one and the same place, as ch. Joshua 18:13. Jdg 1:23 it is, perhaps, because in a length of time they were united, and the inhabitants of the former went to the latter. There are numerous examples in history of these unions of two cities into one. See Huet. Demonst. Evang. Prop. 4. We should apprehend, therefore, with Dupin, that the whole verse might be rendered thus: And goeth out from Beth-el Luzah,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Joshua 16:1-4

The writer described the whole territory of Joseph first. read more