Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
Knobel supposes it to have been on the site of the present Kabate ( Seetzen , ii. p.
166), Kubatiyeh , an hour and a half to the south of Jenin ( Rob. iii. 154), assuming
that Michmethah might also have been pronounced Chemathah , and that b may have
been substituted for m. But Kabate is six hours to the north of Shechem, and therefore
was certainly not "before Shechem" (Josh 17:7). It then turned "eastward to Taanathshiloh"
( Eeena'th Seeloo' , LXX), according to the Onom. ( s. v. Thenath ) ten
Roman miles from Neapolis (Sichem), on the way to the Jordan, most probably the
Thena of Ptol. (v. 16, 5), the present Tana, Ain Tana , a heap of ruins on the south-east
of Nabulus, where there are large cisterns to be found (see Rob. Bibl. Res. p. 295;
Ritter , Erdk.
xv. p. 471). And "then went by on the east to Janoah" (i.e., Jano in Acrabittena
regione , twelve Roman miles from Neapolis: Onom. ), the present ruins of Janûn , a
miserable village, with extensive ruins of great antiquity, about three hours to the
south-east of Nabulus, three-quarters of an hour to the north-east of Akrabeh ( Rob.
Bibl. Res. p. 297; Van de Velde , R. ii. p. 268).
Joshua 16:7
And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho,
and went out at Jordan.
From Janoah the boundary went down "to Ataroth and Naarath," Ataroth , a different
place from the Ataroth or Atroth-addar mentioned in vv. 3 and 5, is apparently to be
sought for on the eastern slope of the mountains by the side of the Ghor, judging from
the expression "went down;" but it has not yet been discovered. Naarath , probably
the same as Naaran , in eastern Ephraim (1 Chron 7:28), is described in the Onom. ( s.
v. Naaratha ) as viculus Judaeorum Naorath , five Roman miles (i.e., two hours) from
Jericho, probably on the north-east. The boundary line then touched Jericho, i.e., the
district of Jericho, namely on the north side of the district, as Jericho was allotted to
the tribe of Benjamin (Josh 18:21). At this point it also coincided with the southern
boundary of the tribe of Joseph (v. 1) and the northern boundary of Benjamin (Josh
18:12).
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