Joshua 16:8
And the borders will proceed from Tappuah to the sea to Kanah; and their termination will be at the sea; this is the inheritance of the tribe of Ephraim according to their families.
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Numbers 34:6And ye shall have your border on the west, the great sea shall be the boundary: this shall be to you the border on the west.
Joshua 16:3And they will go across to the sea to the borders of Japhletites, as far as the borders of Beth-horon the lower, and the going forth of them shall be to the sea.
Joshua 17:8It shall belong to Manasseh, and Tappuah on the borders of Manasseh shall belong to the sons of Ephraim.
Joshua 19:28and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah to great Sidon.
1 Chronicles 7:28And their possession and their dwelling were Bethel and her towns, to the east Naaran, westward Gezer and her towns, and Shechem and her towns, as far as Gaza and her towns.
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 →