And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.
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Gill's Exposition
The border went out from Tappuah westward,.... Which was different from the Tappuah in the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:34; this was in the tribe of Ephraim on the border of Manasseh, Jos 17:8,
unto the…
From the abrupt manner in which the statements are introduced, as well as from their imperfect character, there is probability in the conjecture that some words have, in these verses, fallen out of…
Here, 1. The border of the lot of Ephraim is set down, by which it was divided on the south from Benjamin and Dan, who lay between it and Judah, and on the north from Manasseh; for east and west it…
Cambridge Bible
went down The border "went down" because it descended along the slopes in the direction of the Jordan valley.
to Ataroth which place, it is thought, is to be sought somewhere in this valley, "at the…
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