Josué 16:3

3 descendía hacia el oeste al territorio de los jafletitas hasta la región de Bet Jorón de Abajo y Guézer, y terminaba en el mar Mediterráneo.

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 El territorio asignado a los descendientes de José comenzaba en el río Jordán, al este de los manantiales de Jericó; y de allí ascendía hacia la región montañosa de Betel, a través del desierto.

2 De Betel, es decir, Luz, continuaba hacia el territorio de los arquitas hasta Astarot,

3 descendía hacia el oeste al territorio de los jafletitas hasta la región de Bet Jorón de Abajo y Guézer, y terminaba en el mar Mediterráneo.

4 Así fue como las tribus de Manasés y Efraín, descendientes de José, recibieron como herencia sus territorios.

5 Este es el territorio que recibieron la tribu de Efraín y sus respectivos clanes:En el lado oriental sus límites se extendían desde Atarot Adar hasta Bet Jorón de Arriba,