Giosué 16:3

3 scendeva a occidente verso il confine dei Giafletei sino al confine di Beth-Horon disotto e fino a Ghezer, e faceva capo al mare.

Giosué 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.

Giosué 16:3 In-Context

1 La parte toccata a sorte ai figliuoli di Giuseppe si estendeva dal Giordano presso Gerico, verso le acque di Gerico a oriente, seguendo il deserto che sale da Gerico a Bethel per la contrada montuosa.

2 Il confine continuava poi da Bethel a Luz, e passava per la frontiera degli Archei ad Ataroth,

3 scendeva a occidente verso il confine dei Giafletei sino al confine di Beth-Horon disotto e fino a Ghezer, e faceva capo al mare.

4 I figliuoli di Giuseppe, Manasse ed Efraim, ebbero ciascuno la loro eredità.

5 Or questi furono i confini de’ figliuoli di Efraim, secondo le loro famiglie. Il confine della loro eredità era, a oriente, Atharoth-Addar, fino a Beth-Horon disopra;