Joshua 16 - Introduction
_THE GENERAL BORDERS OF THE SONS OF JOSEPH. THE CANAANITES NOT YET CONQUERED._ _Before Christ 1445._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE GENERAL BORDERS OF THE SONS OF JOSEPH. THE CANAANITES NOT YET CONQUERED._ _Before Christ 1445._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 2. _AND GOETH OUT FROM BETH-EL TO LUZ_— If now and then Luz and Beth-el are mentioned as one and the same place, as ch. Joshua 18:13. Joshua 1:23 it is, perhaps, because in a length of time they were united, and the inhabitants of the former went to the latter. There are numerous examples in... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 5. _AND THE BORDER OF THE CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM,_ &C.— After marking out the south, east, and west boundaries of the tribe of Ephraim, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, referring to ch. Judges 17:7 the description of its northern limits, the author proceeds to a more exact designation of the exte... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 6. _AND THE BORDER WENT OUT TOWARD THE SEA,_ &C.— The whole verse is very obscure: all that we can observe upon it is, that the portion of Ephraim was inclosed on the north by a line, which went from Upper Beth-horon, among others, to Michmethah, in the way to the Mediterranean, but on the no... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 9. _AND THE SEPARATE CITIES FOR THE CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM WERE,_ &C.— The natural sense of these words is, that besides the above-mentioned cities, through which the line of separation of the tribe of Ephraim, from that of Manasseh, crossed, the Ephraimites had some other cities beyond the boun... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 10. _AND THEY DRAVE NOT OUT THE CANAANITES THAT DWELT IN GEZER,_ &C.— Gezer was upon the sea-coast, in the district retained by the Philistines. Judges 1:29. _BUT THE CANAANITES—SERVE UNDER TRIBUTE_— Grotius, in his commentary upon these words, thinks that the Gezerites, when become tributari... [ Continue Reading ]