then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, and touches Jericho, ending at the Jordan.
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.
Commenting on Joshua 16:5-10
The border went out from Tappuah westward,.... Which was different from the Tappuah in the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:34; this was in the tribe of Ephraim on the border of Manasseh, Jos 17:8, unto the river Kanah; supposed by some to be the brook Cherith, by which Elijah hid himself, Kg1 17:3; though objected to by others; it seems to have had its name...
THE BORDERS OF THE INHERITANCE OF EPHRAIM. (Jos 16:5-9) 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.
Commenting on Joshua 16:5-9