Joshua 16

Joseph’s Inheritance

1 The allotment for the descendants of Joseph went from the Jordan at Jericho to the Waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness  * 16:1 Jos 8:15; 18:12 ascending from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel. 2 From Bethel it went to Luz and proceeded to the border of the Archites by Ataroth.  * 16:2 Jos 18:133 It then descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer,  * 16:3 Jos 10:33 and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. 4 So Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph,  * 16:4 Jos 17:14 received their inheritance.  * 16:4 Gn 48:5–20

Ephraim’s Inheritance

5 This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans:

The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar  * 16:5 Jos 18:13 on the east to Upper Beth-horon. 6 In the north the border went westward from Michmethath;  * 16:6 Jos 17:7 it turned eastward from Taanath-shiloh and passed it east of Janoah. 7 From Janoah it descended to Ataroth and Naarah,  * 16:7 1Ch 7:28 and then reached Jericho and went to the Jordan. 8 From Tappuah the border went westward along the Brook of Kanah and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.  * 16:8 Jos 17:8

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans, together with 9 the cities set apart for the descendants of Ephraim within the inheritance of the descendants of Manasseh — all these cities with their settlements. 10 However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer.  * 16:10 Jdg 1:29; 1Kg 9:16 So the Canaanites still live in Ephraim today,  * 16:10 Jos 6:25 but they are forced laborers.