Bible Strands
Joshua 17:7
Now the border of Manasseh went from Asher to Michmethath near Shechem, then southward to include the inhabitants of En-tappuah.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Joshua records the territorial boundaries for the tribe of Manasseh during the division of the Promised Land among the twelve tribes of Israel.
The words — גְבוּל (ge.Vul-) denotes a fixed boundary or border, while מֵ/אָשֵׁר (me./'a.Sher) marks the starting point of that line at the tribe of Asher.
The thread — Shechem, located near the described border, later serves as a Levitical city of refuge in Joshua 21:21 and appears earlier in Genesis 34:2 and Genesis 37:12 as a site of historical conflict and family movement.
Why it lands — The text demands precise acknowledgment of inherited land limits to establish legal ownership and prevent tribal disputes over territory.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of En–tappuah.
Cross-references
- Joshua 21:21 they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,
- Genesis 34:2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
- Genesis 37:12 Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
- Genesis 37:14 Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
- Joshua 16:6 and out toward the Sea. From Michmethath on the north it turned eastward toward Taanath-shiloh and passed by it to Janoah on the east.
- Joshua 20:7 So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
- Joshua 24:1 Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.
- Joshua 24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.
- Judges 9:1 Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,
- 1 Kings 12:1 Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.