Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 16:5
Verse 5. Ataroth-addar] See the note on ver. 2. Beth-horon the upper] The situation of this town is little known. It was eastward of Beth-horon the nether, and consequently not far from it.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 5. And the border of the children of Ephraim, according to their families, was [thus] , etc.] Or what follows is the description of it: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper ; the first was on the south of the inheritance, and the latter on the north, as Masius has placed them: who has given us a type of this description, by which it appears that this lot is here described in its breadth from south to north.
Matthew Henry Commentary
The sons of Joseph.
--This and the following chapter should not be separated. They give the lots of Ephraim and Manasseh, the children of Joseph, who, next to Judah, were to have the post of honour, and therefore had the first an best portion in the northern part of Canaan, as Judah in the souther part. God's people now, as of old, suffer his enemies to remain Blessed Lord, when will all our enemies be subdued? 1Co 15:26. Do tho drive them all out; thou alone canst do it. These settled boundarie may remind us, that our situation and provision in this life, as wel as our future inheritance, are appointed by the only wise and righteou God, and we should be content with our portion, since he knows what is best for us, and all we have is more than we deserve __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 גבול 1366 בני 1121 אפרים 669 למשׁפחתם 4940 ויהי 1961 גבול 1366 נחלתם 5159 מזרחה 4217 עטרות אדר 5853 עד 5704 בית חורן 1032 עליון׃ 5945
