Joshua 16:1

And the limit of the land marked out for the children of Joseph went out from Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, in the waste land, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Beth-el;

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In The King James Version

And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,

In Context

2And it goes out from Beth-el to Luz, and on as far as the limit of the Archites to Ataroth;

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Cross References

Genesis 35:24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

Joshua 15:61In the waste land, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah;

Joshua 18:12And their limit on the north was from the Jordan, and the line goes up to the side of Jericho on the north and through the hill-country to the west, ending at the waste land of Beth-aven.

Judges 1:23So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el. (Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz.)

Ezekiel 48:5And on the limit of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side: Ephraim, one part.

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 →

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