Joshua 16:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

From Bethel to Luz Dupin translates this Bethel-Luz, and Dr. Waterland, Bethel, which is Luz; for we sometimes find them mentioned as one and the same place, as Joshua 18:13; Judges 1:23; and it is probable that in a length of time they were united, and the inhabitants of the former went to the latter. The borders of Archi to Ataroth Or rather, the borders of Archi-Ataroth, as both the Seventy and the Vulgate render it, and as the words are in the Hebrew, this being the same city which is afterward called Ataroth, Joshua 16:7.

Joshua 16:2

2 And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,