Joshua 16:1

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 16:1

CONTENTS This Chapter contains the account of the portions of Joseph and of Ephraim. But inasmuch as they expelled not the Canaanites from among them, they bear the reproach. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Joshua 16:1-4

Joseph as a type of the ever blessed Jesus, had eminent distinctions assigned him by his Father. He was among the youngest of Jacob ' s children, but yet, after Judah, is one of the first to be provided for, in his tribe. If the Reader be curious to observe the boundaries of Joseph, he will discover that his lot was very favourably cast, being in the very heart of Canaan. And is not Jesus, whom Joseph typified, the sum and substance and centre of Heaven? Doth he not reign in the very heart of... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Joshua 16:1

Joseph. The double portion is given to him, as Ruben forfeited his birth-right. (Chaldean) (Worthington) --- Waters; or the celebrated fountain, which renders the territory so fruitful, and which was made sweet, by Eliseus casting salt into it, 4 Kings ii. 19. --- Wilderness of Bethaven, chap. xviii. 12., and viii. 14. (Calmet) --- Which, is not to be referred to wilderness, but to the word lot. (Masius; Menochius) read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Joshua 16:1-4

The General Boundaries of the Sons of Joseph v. 1. And the lot of the children of Joseph fell, came out from the urn or was drawn to give the boundaries, from Jordan by Jericho, that part of the Jordan Valley which touches upon the territory of Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, the Fountain of Elisha, between Jericho and the Jordan, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout Mount Bethel, toward the northwest. v. 2. And (the boundary) goeth out from Bethel, from... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Joshua 16:1-10

2. The Territory of the Tribes of Ephraim and ManassehJoshua 16, 17a. Its BoundariesJoshua 16:1-41And the lot of [for] the children [sons] of Joseph fell [came out] from [the] Jordan by Jericho, unto [at] the water of Jericho, on the east, to the wilderness which 2goeth up from Jericho throughout [on] Mount Beth-el, And goeth [and it went] out from Beth-el to Luz, and passeth [passed] along unto the border of Archi [the 3Archite] to Ataroth, And goeth [went] down westward to the coast [border]... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Joshua 16:1-10

Next in order we have an account of the inheritance of Joseph divided between his sons Ephraim and Manasseh. The part allotted to Ephraim was a fertile and beautiful district, perhaps in many respects the most desirable in all the country. Nevertheless, it was a place of peculiar difficulty at the time from the fact that it lay still wholly in the power of the Canaanites. The campaigns of Joshua had not perfectly dealt with it and cities possessed by the Canaanites existed. This, in itself is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 16:1

Chapter 16 The Lot For the Children of Joseph. In this chapter the lot allocated to the children of Joseph, seen as one tribe and yet two, is described. It was the portion north of that of Benjamin and Dan. It was not necessary to deal with it in such detail because it was discernible from the boundaries of the other tribes. Their prospective possessions occupied the centre of Palestine, bounded on the north by the Plain of Esdraelon, and the territories of Asher and Issachar, and on the south... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 16:1-10

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-Leviticus :) 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... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 16:1

Of Joseph, i.e. of Ephraim, and the half tribe of Manasseh, which are here put together in one; not because they had but one lot, for Ephraim had one here, Joshua 16:5, and Manasseh another, Joshua 17:1; but because in these first verses he speaks of them in common, and of the south border, which seems to be the same, either wholly or in a great part; and then he comes to the particular description of their several portions. It is here further remarkable, that God so disposed of these lots,... read more

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