Joshua 16:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.

Joshua 16:8 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 17:8-9
Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim; …
Numbers 34:6
And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
Joshua 12:17
The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
Joshua 19:28
And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;
Joshua 16:3-6
And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea. …

Topics

Ephraim Joseph Kanah Tappuah

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-10)

Here, 1. The border of the lot of Ephraim is set down, by which it was divided on the south from Benjamin and Dan, who lay between it and Judah, and on the north from Manasseh; for east and west it reached from Jordan to the great sea. The learned, who aim to be exact in drawing the line according to the directions here, find themselves very much at a loss, the description being short and intricat…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

5-9. the border of their inheritance ... was Ataroth-addar--Ataroth-addar (now Atara), four miles south of Jetta [Robinson], is fixed on as a center, through which a line is drawn from Upper Beth-horon to Michmethah, showing the western limit of their actual possessions. The tract beyond that to the sea was still unconquered.