Joshua 16:8

From Tappuah the border went westwards to the torrent Kanah, and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families,

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.

In Context

7and went down from Janohah to Ataroth and Naarath, and touched upon Jericho, and went out to the Jordan.

9with the cities that were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities and their hamlets.

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Cross References

Numbers 34:6And as west border ye shall have the great sea, and [its] coast. This shall be your west border.

Joshua 16:3and went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, as far as the border of the lower Beth-horon, and to Gezer; and ended at the sea.

Joshua 17:8Manasseh had the land of Tappuah; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.

Joshua 19:28and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, as far as great Zidon;

1 Chronicles 7:28And their possession and dwelling-places were Bethel and its dependent villages, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer and its dependent villages, and Shechem and its dependent villages as far as to Gazah and its dependent villages.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 16:6-10

The Inheritance of Joseph's Children. ( b. c. 1444.) 5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper; 6 And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah; 7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan. 8 The… Read the whole commentary →

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