Joshua 16:7

And it went down from Johanan to Ataroth ,.... This is different from Ataroth before mentioned, Joshua 16:2 ; there were several places of this name, as before observed; this seems to be that which Jerom places four miles from Sebaste or Samaria; see Gill on Joshua 16:2 ,

and to Naarath ; Jerom F7 De loc. Heb. fol. 93. I. says, that Naarath was in his time called Naorath, a village of the Jews, five miles from Jericho; and is the village Josephus F8 Antiqu. l. 17. c. 15. sect. 1. calls Neara, where was a water, half of which Archelaus turned, and led to the field planted with palm trees, near Jericho; and, according to the Jewish writers F9 Vajikra Rabba, sect. 23. fol. 164. 3. Shirhashirim Rabba, fol. 9. 3. Echa Rabbati, fol. 50. 4. : there was a place called Noaran near to Jericho, which seems to be this:

and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan ; where it ended this way, which was eastward.