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Joshua 16:3

Joshua 16:3 is verse 3 of Joshua chapter 16, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Then it descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon and on to Gezer, and it ended at the Sea.

That is, the Mediterranean Sea, also called the Great Sea; also in verses 6 and 8

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King James Version

And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer; and the goings out thereof are at the sea.

World English Bible

and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, and on to Gezer; and ended at the sea.

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Joshua 16:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 The allotment for the descendants of Joseph extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness that goes up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.

2 It went on from Bethel (that is, Luz) and proceeded to the border of the Archites in Ataroth.

3 Then it descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon and on to Gezer, and it ended at the Sea.

4 So Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, received their inheritance.

5 This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar in the east to Upper Beth-horon

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Hebrew words

וְיָֽרַדand it goes down יָ֜מָּהwest -ward אֶלto גְּב֣וּל[the] border of הַיַּפְלֵטִ֗יthe Japhletite[s]עַ֣דto גְּב֧וּל[the] border ofבֵּיתחוֹרֹ֛ןHoron תַּחְתּ֖וֹןlower וְעַדand to גָּ֑זֶרGezer וְהָי֥וּand they are תֹצְאֹתָ֖יוextremities its יָֽמָּה[the] sea towards

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Joshua 18:13
From there the border crossed over to the southern slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth-addar on the hill south of Lower Beth-horon.

1 Kings 9:15
This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

1 Kings 9:16
Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

1 Kings 9:17
So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,

1 Chronicles 7:24
His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, as well as Uzzen-sheerah.

1 Chronicles 7:28
Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.

2 Chronicles 8:5
He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

Numbers 34:6
Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.

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