Josué 16:2

2 de Betel vai para Luz, e passa ao termo dos arquitas, até Atarote;

Josué 16:2 Meaning and Commentary

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 to the city of Luz, ( Genesis 38:11 Genesis 38:19 ) ; and therefore with propriety may be, as they here are, distinguished:

and passeth along unto the borders Archi to Ataroth;
or to Archiataroth; these two words being the name of one and the same place, and to be joined as they are, in the Greek version, and others; and is the same with Atarothaddar, ( Joshua 16:5 ) ( 18:13 ) . Ataroth was its proper name, but it had these additional epithets to distinguish it from another Ataroth; see ( Joshua 16:7 ) ; Jerom ^F2 makes mention of Atharoth by Ramma, in the tribe of Joseph, and of another in the tribe of Ephraim, now a village at the north of Sebaste, or Samaria, four miles from it, called Atharus; the former is here meant.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 De loc. Heb. fol. 88. G.

Josué 16:2 In-Context

1 Saiu depois a sorte dos filhos de José, a qual, partindo do Jordão, na altura de Jericó, junto �s águas de Jericó ao oriente, se estende pelo deserto que sobe de Jericó através da região montanhosa até Betel;

2 de Betel vai para Luz, e passa ao termo dos arquitas, até Atarote;

3 desce para o ocidente até o termo dos jafletitas, até o termo de Bete-Horom de baixo, e daí até Gezer, indo terminar no mar.

4 Assim receberam a sua herança os filhos de José, Manassés e Efraim.

5 Ora, fica o termo dos filhos de Efraim, segundo as suas famílias, como se segue: para o oriente o termo da sua herança é Atarote-Adar até Bete-Horom de cima;