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Joshua 16:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth; "

Joshua 16:2

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1 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.

2 It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;

3 and 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.

4 The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.

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Related Verses

Joshua 18:13

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"The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower."

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Joshua 19:27

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"It turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel. It went out to Cabul on the left hand,"

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Genesis 13:3

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"He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,"

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Genesis 12:8

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"He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the LORD’s name."

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Judges 1:23

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"The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)"

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1 Samuel 13:18

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"another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness."

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Joshua 16:1

"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."

Joshua 16:3

"and 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."

Joshua 16:4

"The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance."

Joshua 16:5

"This 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."

Joshua 16:6

"The 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."

Joshua 16:7

"It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan."

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