Joshua 17:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;

Joshua 17:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 16:8
The 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 15:34
And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
Joshua 12:17
The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
Joshua 15:53
And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,

Commentary

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

(vv. 7-13)

We have here a short account of the lot of this half tribe. It reached from Jordan on the east to the great sea on the west; on the south it lay all along contiguous to Ephraim, but on the north it abutted upon Asher and Issachar. Asher lay north-west, and Issachar north-east, which seems to be the meaning of that (Josh. 17:10), that they (that is, Manasseh and Ephraim, as related to it, both toge…

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

(vv. 8)

7-11. the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah--The southern boundary is here traced from the east. Asher (now Yasir), the starting point, was a town fifteen Roman miles east of Shechem, and anciently a place of importance.