Joshua 16:3 meaning and explanation

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.

Joshua 16:3, Berean Standard Bible

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This verse belongs to the description of the land given to the descendants of Joseph, the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, after the conquest under Joshua. It traces the southern boundary westward past the border of the Japhletites, a people otherwise unknown to us, then Lower Beth-horon and Gezer, ending at the Mediterranean Sea.

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