Joshua 16:7

“And it went down from Johanan to Ataroth, etc.] This is different from Ataroth before mentioned, (<061602>Joshua 16:2); there were several places of this name, as before observed; this seems to be that which Jerom places four miles from Sebaste or Samaria, (see Gill on “<061602>Joshua 16:2”); and to Naarath; Jerom f384 says, that Naarath was in his time called Naorath, a village of the Jews, five miles from Jericho; and is the village Josephus f385 calls Neara, where was a water, half of which Archelaus turned, and led to the field planted with palm trees, near Jericho; and, according to the Jewish writers f386: there was a place called Noaran near to Jericho, which seems to be this: and…”

“From the abrupt manner in which the statements are introduced, as well as from their imperfect character, there is probability in the conjecture that some words have, in these verses, fallen out of the text. Few of the places are known for certain. return to 'Top of Page'”

“To Jericho - Not to the city of Jericho, which belonged to Benjamin's lot, Jos 18:21, but to its territory. Joshua 16:9”

“Ataroth: Ch1 7:28 Jericho: Jos 3:16, Jos 6:1, Jos 6:26; Num 33:48 Joshua 16:8”

“From Janoah the boundary went down "to Ataroth and Naarath," Ataroth, a different place from the Ataroth or Atroth-addar mentioned in Jos 16:3 and Jos 16:5, is apparently to be sought for on the eastern slope of the mountains by the side of the Ghor, judging from the expression "went down;" but it has not yet been discovered. Naarath, probably the same as Naaran, in eastern Ephraim ( Ch1 7:28), is described in the Onom. (s. v. Naaratha) as viculus Judaeorum Naorath, five Roman miles (i.e., two hours) from Jericho, probably on the north-east. The boundary line then touched Jericho, i.e., the district of Jericho, namely on the north side of the district, as Jericho was allotted to the tribe of…”