Joshua 16:1
And the lot came out for the sons of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Bethel.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2And it went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth,
Cross References
Genesis 35:24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Joshua 15:61In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,
Joshua 18:12And their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan, and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill-country westward. And the goings out of it were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
Judges 1:23And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)
Ezekiel 48:5And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one [portion].
Matthew Henry on Joshua 16:1
It is a pity that this and the following chapter should be separated, for both of them give us the lot of the children of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, who, next to Judah, were to have the post of honour, and therefore had the first and best portion in the northern part of Canaan, as Judah now had in the southern part. In this chapter we have, I. A general account of the lot of these two tribes together, ver. 1-4 . II. The borders of the lot of Ephraim in particular, ver. 5-10 . That of Manasseh following in the… Read the whole commentary →