This chapter gives us an account of the lot of the children of Joseph, Ephraim, and the half tribe of Manasseh, one half having settled on the other side Jordan; and first the borders of the whole lot in general are given, Josh.

And the lot of the children of Joseph fell Or, “went out” [[0]]; of the pot or urn, this being the next lot that was drawn to that of Judah, the government being Judah’s, and the birthright Joseph’s, ; and by his children are here meant the tribe of Ephraim, and the tribe of Manasseh: or the line…

And goeth out from Bethel to Luz For though these two places in time became one, yet they were originally distinct. Bethel, at which Jacob stopped, and who gave it its name, was a field adjacent to the city of Luz, (Gen. 38:11, Gen.

And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti This place is now unknown, though no doubt well known to the sons of Joseph, when this lot fell to them, and its border was described: unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether: so called to distinguish it from Bethhoron the upper, ; this was about…

So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance. ] As it fell to them by the lot; by Manasseh is meant the half tribe of Manasseh, one half of that tribe having been settled by Moses on the other side Jordan; and next follows an account of the borders of the inheritance of…

And the border of the children of Ephraim, according to their families, was thus Or what follows is the description of it: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper; the first was on the south of the inheritance, and the latter on the north, as…

And the border went out towards the sea The Mediterranean sea: to Michmethah on the north side; of the border, the same on which Bethhoron was, from whence the border proceeded on to this place, of which we have no other account but in ; by which it appears to have been near Shechem, and in sight…

And it went down from Johanan to Ataroth This is different from Ataroth before mentioned, ; there were several places of this name, as before observed; this seems to be that which Jerom places four miles from Sebaste or Samaria, (See Gill on Josh.

The border went out from Tappuah westward Which was different from the Tappuah in the tribe of Judah, ; this was in the tribe of Ephraim on the border of Manasseh, ; unto the river Kanah; supposed by some to be the brook Cherith, by which Elijah hid himself, (1 Kings 17:3, 1 Kings 17:5) ; though…

And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim The tribe of Ephraim, being much larger than the half tribe of Manasseh, besides the lot that fell to it, described before by its boundaries, had several particular and distinct cities given to it: which were among the inheritance of the children…

And they drove not out the Canaanites which dwelt in Gezer, &c.] Which was the border of their tribe length ways, and was near the sea, ; in this they did not obey the command of God, and either they did not drive them out, because they could not, God not delivering them up into their hands,…