Joshua 16:2

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…

Of Archi - (Read “of the Archite,” also a designation of David’s friend Hushai (2Sa 15:32; 2Sa 16:16, etc.). The word is derived from Erech Gen 10:10. But whether there was in the neighborhood of…

From Bethel to Luz - From Gen 28:19 (note) it appears that the place which Jacob called Beth-el was formerly called Luz; see the note there: but here they seem to be two distinct places. It is very…

Though Joseph was one of the younger sons of Jacob, yet he was his eldest by his most just and best beloved wife Rachel, was himself his best beloved son, and had been the greatest ornament and…

and goeth out Thence it passed on to Luz. It seems impossible to determine exactly whether Bethel and Luz were the same town, Luzbeing the Canaanite and Bethelthe Hebrew name, or whether they were…