Josué 16:3

3 Y descendía hacia el occidente al territorio de los jafletitas, hasta el territorio de Bet-horón de abajo, y hasta Gezer, y terminaba en el mar.

Josué 16:3 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 16:3

And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti
This place is now unknown, though no doubt well known to the sons of Joseph, when this lot fell to them, and its border was described:

unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether:
so called to distinguish it from Bethhoron the upper, ( Joshua 16:5 ) ; this was about twelve miles from Jerusalem; (See Gill on Joshua 10:10); and to Gezer: which was about a day's journey from Bethhoron, as appears from the passages in the Apocrypha:

``39 So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bethhoron, where an host out of Syria met him. 40 But Judas pitched in Adasa with three thousand men, and there he prayed, saying, ... 45 Then they pursued after them a day's journey, from Adasa unto Gazera, sounding an alarm after them with their trumpets.'' (1 Maccabees 7)

Jerom ^F3 says in his time it was a village called Gazara, four miles from Nicopolis, or Emmaus. It is the same with Gadara, as it is sometimes called by Josephus, who says ^F4, the tribe of Ephraim took in the land from the river Jordan to Gadara; this was a royal city; see ( Joshua 10:33 ) ;

and the outgoings thereof are at the sea:
the Mediterranean sea.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 De loc. Heb. fol. 92. A.
F4 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 22.

Josué 16:3 In-Context

1 Tocó en suerte a los hijos de José desde el Jordán frente a Jericó (las aguas de Jericó) al oriente, hacia el desierto, subiendo desde Jericó por la región montañosa a Betel.

2 Seguía desde Betel a Luz, y continuaba hasta el límite de los arquitas en Atarot.

3 Y descendía hacia el occidente al territorio de los jafletitas, hasta el territorio de Bet-horón de abajo, y hasta Gezer, y terminaba en el mar.

4 Recibieron, pues, su heredad los hijos de José, Manasés y Efraín.

5 Y este fue el territorio de los hijos de Efraín conforme a sus familias: el límite de su heredad hacia el oriente era Atarot-adar, hasta Bet-horón de arriba.