SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:8
Y de Tapúa torna este término hacia el mar al arroyo de Caná, y sale al mar. Esta es la heredad de la tribu de los hijos de Efraín por sus familias.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 16:8
Verse 8. Tappuah] This was a city in the tribe of Manasseh, and gave name to a certain district called the land of Tappuah. See chap. xvii. 8. The sea] The Mediterranean, as before.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. The border went out from Tappuah westward , etc.] Which was different from the Tappuah in the tribe of Judah, ( Joshua 15:34); this was in the tribe of Ephraim on the border of Manasseh, ( Joshua 17:8); unto the river Kanah ; supposed by some to be the brook Cherith, by which Elijah hid himself, ( 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.
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
מתפוח 8599 ילך 1980 הגבול 1366 ימה 3220 נחל 5158 קנה 7071 והיו 1961 תצאתיו 8444 הימה 3220 זאת 2063 נחלת 5159 מטה 4294 בני 1121 אפרים 669 למשׁפחתם׃ 4940
