John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 16:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The border went out from Tappuah westward, etc.] Which was different from the Tappuah in the tribe of Judah, (<061534>Joshua 15:34); this was in the tribe of Ephraim on the border of Manasseh, (<061708>Joshua 17:8); unto the river Kanah; supposed by some to be the brook Cherith, by which Elijah hid himself, (<111703>1 Kings 17:3,5); though objected to by others; it seems to have had its name from the reeds which grew in it, or on the banks of it: and the goings out thereof were at the sea; if the river Kanah was the brook Cherith, this must be the dead or salt sea: but that is never called “the sea”, rather the Mediterranean sea is meant, and consequently Kanah could not be Cherith, which was at too great a distance from this sea: this [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families; that is, this is the description of the border of it; for the cities within are not mentioned, and the descriptions in general are very obscure.

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