John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 16:7

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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 came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan; where it ended this way, which was eastward.

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