Key Verse Spotlight
Joshua 16:4 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.”
Joshua 16:4
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,
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.
So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was {thus}: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;
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