Joshua 16:1
And the borders of the children of Joseph were from Jordan by Jericho eastward; and they will go up from Jericho to the hill country, to the wilderness, to Bethel Luz.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
2And they will go out to Bethel, and will proceed to the borders of Ataroth.
Cross References
Genesis 35:24And the sons of Rachel; Joseph and Benjamin.
Joshua 15:61and Baddargeis, and Beth-arabah, and Aenon;
Joshua 18:12And their borders were northward: the borders shall go up from Jordan behind Jericho northward, and shall go up to the mountain westward, and the issue of it shall be Beth-aven of Mabdara.
Judges 1:23And they encamped and surveyed Bethel: and the name of the city before was Luz.
Ezekiel 48:5And from the borders of Manasseh, from the eastern parts as far as the west coasts, for Ephraim, one.
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 →