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The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel. See also: Joshua 18:12Joshua 8:152 Kings 2:19-21It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth; See also: Joshua 18:13Genesis 28:192 Samuel 16:16and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, and on to Gezer; and ended at the sea. See also: Joshua 18:13Joshua 10:332 Chronicles 8:5The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance. See also: Joshua 17:14This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper. See also: Joshua 18:13Joshua 16:2The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah. See also: Joshua 17:7Joshua 18:1It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan. See also: 1 Chronicles 7:28Numbers 33:48Joshua 3:16From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families; See also: Joshua 17:8-9Joshua 16:3-6Joshua 19:28together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. See also: Joshua 17:9They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the territory of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor. See also: Judges 1:29Deuteronomy 7:1-21 Kings 9:16
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Joshua 16:1
Ver. 1. Joseph. The double portion is given to him, as Ruben forfeited his birth-right. Chal. W.
--- Waters; or the celebrated fountain, which renders the territory so fruitful, and which was made sweet, by Eliseus casting salt into it, 4 K. ii. 19. ---
Wilderness of Bethaven. C. xviii. 12. and viii.
14. C. --- Which, is not to be referred to wilderness, but to the word lot. Masius.
M.
↑ 1Joshua 16:2
Ver. 2. To Luza. The Vulg. reads Bethel Luza, which may be supposed to be two names, (C.
xviii. 13. H.) for the same city. M. Gen. xxviii. 29. --- Bethel was probably the country, (C.) or mountain, (H.) to the east of Luza, on the frontiers of Benjamin and of Ephraim; for which reason it is sometimes attributed to both. --- To Atharoth. This city, and Archi, are supposed by some to be the same city. Archi seems, however, to have been a distinct place, where Chusai ws born, 2
K. xv. 32. Atharoth is styled Addar, "the illustrious," v. 5. It was 15 miles from Jericho.
↑ 2Joshua 16:3
Ver. 3. Nether. See C. x. 11. The upper Bethoron was of much less note, near the Jordan. ---
Gazer was in the vicinity of Azotus, 1 Mac. xiv. 34. C. x. 33. C.
↑ 3Joshua 16:4
Ver. 4. Possessed it, or divided the country between them. The territories of Ephraim are henceforward described, to the end of the chapter. M.
↑ 4Joshua 16:6
Ver. 6. Looketh to the north, &c. The meaning is, that the border went towards the north, by Machmethath; and then turned eastward to Thanathselo. Ch. ---
Borders. It should be terminus.
"The border turneth eastward." Sept. Bonfrere. --- Janoe, twelve miles east of Sichem. Euseb. 4
K. xv. 29.
↑ 6Joshua 16:8
Ver. 8. Reeds. Sept. "of Cana." The vale belonged to Manasses, but the cities were ceded to Ephraim, v. 9. C. xvii. 19. The limits of these two tribes are very confused. C. --- Most salt.
This is the title generally applied to the lake of Sodom. But here the Mediterranean is meant, which, compared with many of the seas of Palestine, is certainly most salt. M. --- The epithet is not, however, found in Heb. or Sept.
(C.) and Serarius thinks it has crept in here by mistake. M.
↑ 8Joshua 16:10
Ver. 10. Gazer. It is not certain when the Ephraimites rendered this city tributary, or when it threw off the yoke. The king of Egypt afterwards conquered it, and gave it with his daughter to Solomon. C. x. 33. C. See Judg. i.
29. --- The negligence of Ephraim was contrary to God's order. Ex. xx. M. ---
The Alex. Sept. here inserts after day, "till Pharao, king of Egypt, went up and took the city, and burnt it with fire, and the Chanaanites and Pherezites, and the inhabitants of Gazer, he slew; and Pharao gave it as a dowry to his daughter." Grabe adds what seems deficient,
"and they became tributary slaves." H.
↑ 10License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses