Joshua 16:6

6 and this border comes out to the sea and to Michmethah on the north side; and this border goes around eastward unto Taanathshiloh and from here passes on the east to Janohah;

Joshua 16:6 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 16:6

And the border went out towards the sea
The Mediterranean sea:

to Michmethah on the north side;
of the border, the same on which Bethhoron was, from whence the border proceeded on to this place, of which we have no other account but in ( Joshua 17:7 ) ; by which it appears to have been near Shechem, and in sight of it;

and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh;
this seems to be the same Jerom ^F5 calls Thenath in the tribe of Joseph; and who observes there was in his day a village of this name ten miles from Neapolis (or Shechem) to the east, as you go down to Jordan:

and passed by it on the east to Janohah:
which the above writer ^F6 wrongly calls Janon, and says, that in his time a village of this name was shown in the country of Acrabatena, twelve miles to the east from Neapolis or Shechem; the border passed by Taanath on the east of it, and went on this place.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 De loc. Heb. fol. 95. C.
F6 Ibid. fol. 92. I.

Joshua 16:6 In-Context

4 So the sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.

5 And this was the border of the sons of Ephraim according to their families; this was the border of their inheritance on the east side from Atarothaddar unto Bethhoron the upper;

6 and this border comes out to the sea and to Michmethah on the north side; and this border goes around eastward unto Taanathshiloh and from here passes on the east to Janohah;

7 and from Janohah it goes down to Ataroth and to Naarath, and touches in Jericho and comes out at the Jordan.

8 And from Tappuah this border turns towards the westward sea at the river Kanah and comes out at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim by their families.