Joshua 16:3
and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and ended at the sea.
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2It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;
4The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
Cross References
Joshua 10:33Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
1 Kings 9:15This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
1 Chronicles 7:24His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
1 Chronicles 20:4It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 16:2-5
The Lot of Joseph. ( b. c. 1444.) 1 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 Beth-el, 2 And goeth out from Beth-el to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth, 3 And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea. 4 So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their… Read the whole commentary →