Joshua 16:3

“And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, etc.] This place is now unknown, though no doubt well known to the sons of Joseph, when this lot fell to them, and its border was described: unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether: so called to distinguish it from Bethhoron the upper, (<061605>Joshua 16:5); this was about twelve miles from Jerusalem; (see Gill on “<061010>Joshua 10:10”); and to Gezer: which was about a day’s journey from Bethhoron, as appears from the passages in the Apocrypha: “39 So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bethhoron, where an host out of Syria met him. 40 But Judas pitched in Adasa with three thousand men, and there he prayed, saying, ... 45…”

“Of Japhleti - Rather “of the Japhletite.” All history of the name is lost. return to 'Top of Page'”

“16:3 Ephraim’s border followed the ascent from lower to upper Beth-horon (see 16:5), giving this tribe control of one of the two main roads to Jerusalem from the west. • Gezer, a large and important Canaanite town at the juncture of the coastal plain and the hill country, apparently did not come into Israel’s possession until the time of Solomon (see Judg 1:29; 1 Kgs 9:16).”

“Bethhoron: Eusebius says that the two Beth-horons were twelve miles from Jerusalem, towards Nicopolis or Emmaus. of which the one, called upper Beth-horon, from its situation, was built (rebuilt) by Solomon, and the other, called nether Beth-horon, was given to the Levites. Josephus places Beth-oron about 100 furlongs from Jerusalem. Dr. Clarke mentions an Arab village called Bethoor, about twelve miles from Jerusalem, a small distance from Rama, which he supposes, from its situation on a hill, to be Beth-horon the upper. Jos 18:13; Kg1 9:15-17; Ch1 7:24, Ch1 7:28; Ch2 8:5 Gezer: Probably the Γαζαρα of Eusebius, four miles from Nicopolis. the sea: Num 34:6 Joshua 16:4”