and goeth down westward Hence the boundary passed unto the "coast" of Beth-horon the nether, i.e. the "Lower Beth-horon," and Gezer, to the Mediterranean Sea at Jaffa.

Japhleti is unknown.

Beth-horon See above, ch. Joshua 10:10-11.

Gezer See above ch. Joshua 10:33. It probably lay between Beth-horon and Lydda. "The territory assigned to -the house of Joseph" may be roughly estimated at 55 miles from east to west, by 70 from north to south, a portion about equal in extent to the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk combined."

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