And the border came down
In the description of the border of Judah, hereabout, it is said to go up, ( Joshua 15:5 ) ; because there, as Jarchi observes, the measure was from east to west, but here from west to east:
to the end of the mountain that [lieth] before the valley of the son
of Hinnom;
this south border of Benjamin is the same with the north border of Judah; and the same places are mentioned in the description of the one as of the other, see ( Joshua 15:8 ) . The mountain is Mount Moriah,
[and] which [is] in the valley of the giants on the north;
on the north of the valley of Rephaim:
and descended to the valley of Hinnom;
the border from the end of Mount Moriah to that valley:
to the side of Jebusi on the south;
to the south side of Jerusalem, having that city on the south;
and descended to Enrogel; of which (See Gill on Joshua 15:7).
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