Josué 16:2

2 La frontière sortait de Béthel vers Luz, passait par la frontière des Arkiens à Ataroth,

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 Le sort échut aux enfants de Joseph à partir du Jourdain de Jérico, aux eaux de Jérico vers l'orient, le désert montant de Jérico vers la montagne de Béthel.

2 La frontière sortait de Béthel vers Luz, passait par la frontière des Arkiens à Ataroth,

3 Et descendait à l'occident vers la frontière des Japhlétiens, jusqu'à la frontière de Beth-Horon la basse et jusqu'à Guézer, et aboutissait à la mer.

4 Et les enfants de Joseph, Manassé et Éphraïm reçurent leur héritage.

5 Or, la frontière des enfants d'Éphraïm, selon leurs familles, la frontière de leur héritage était, à l'orient, Ateroth-Addar, jusqu'à Beth-Horon la haute.