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John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 16:2
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, etc.] For though these two places in time became one, yet they were originally distinct. Bethel, at which Jacob stopped, and who gave it its name, was a field adjacent to the city of Luz, (<013811>Genesis 38:11,19); and therefore with propriety may be, as they here are, distinguished: and passeth along unto the borders Archi to Ataroth; or to Archiataroth; these two words being the name of one and the same place, and to be joined as they are, in the Greek version, and others; and is the same with Atarothaddar, (<061605>Joshua 16:5 18:13). Ataroth was its proper name, but it had these additional epithets to distinguish it from another Ataroth; (see <061607> Joshua 16:7); Jerom f379 makes mention of Atharoth by Ramma, in the tribe of Joseph, and of another in the tribe of Ephraim, now a village at the north of Sebaste, or Samaria, four miles from it, called Atharus; the former is here meant.
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