Joshua 16:2
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New International Version (©2011)
It went on from Bethel (that is, Luz), crossed over to the territory of the Arkites in Ataroth,

New Living Translation (©2007)
From Bethel (that is, Luz) it ran over to Ataroth in the territory of the Arkites.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to Ataroth, the territory of the Archites.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
It went from Bethel to Luz, and continued to the border of the Archites at Ataroth.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
From Bethel it went to Luz and proceeded to the border of the Archites by Ataroth.

International Standard Version (©2012)
and from Bethel to Luz, continuing to the border of the Archites at Ataroth.

NET Bible (©2006)
The southern border extended from Bethel to Luz, and crossed to Arkite territory at Ataroth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
From Bethel the border goes to Luz and over to Ataroth at the border of the Archites.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then goes out from Bethel to Luz, and passes along to the borders of the Archites to Ataroth,

American King James Version
And goes out from Bethel to Luz, and passes along to the borders of Archi to Ataroth,

American Standard Version
and it went out from Beth-el to Luz, and passed along unto the border of the Archites to Ataroth;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And goeth out from Bethel to Luza: and passeth the border of Archi, to Ataroth,

Darby Bible Translation
And the border went from Bethel to Luz, and passed to the border of the Archites to Ataroth,

English Revised Version
and it went out from Beth-el to Luz, and passed along unto the border of the Archites to Ataroth;

Webster's Bible Translation
And goeth out from Beth-el to Luz, and passeth along to the borders of Archi to Ataroth,

World English Bible
It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;

Young's Literal Translation
and hath gone out from Beth-El to Luz, and passed over unto the border of Archi to Ataroth,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:20-63 Here is a list of the cities of Judah. But we do not here find Bethlehem, afterwards the city of David, and ennobled by the birth of our Lord Jesus in it. That city, which, at the best, was but little among the thousands of Judah, Mic 5:2, except that it was thus honoured, was now so little as not to be accounted one of the cities.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - From Bethel to Luz. Like Jerusalem and AElia Capitolina, or old and new Carthage, the new city did not coincide precisely in its site with the old one (see Joshua 18:13; also Genesis 28:19; Genesis 35:6; Judges 1:23). Bethel was probably built, as far as could be ascertained, on the spot near the Canaanitish city where the wanderer Jacob spent the night in which the famous vision appeared to him (see Genesis 28:11). Knobel, however, renders literally, Bethel-Luzah, as though the older and later names had been here conjoined. The borders of Archi. Rather, the borders of the Archite (cf. 2 Samuel 15:32; 2 Samuel 16:16; 1 Chronicles 27:33). This is the only clue we have to the residence or tribe of Hushai.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And goeth out from Bethel to Luz,.... For though these two places in time became one, yet they were originally distinct. Bethel, at which Jacob stopped, and who gave it its name, was a field adjacent to the city of Luz, Genesis 38:11; and therefore with propriety may be, as they here are, distinguished:

and passeth along unto the borders Archi to Ataroth; or to Archiataroth; these two words being the name of one and the same place, and to be joined as they are, in the Greek version, and others; and is the same with Atarothaddar, Joshua 16:5. Ataroth was its proper name, but it had these additional epithets to distinguish it from another Ataroth; see Joshua 16:7; Jerom (b) makes mention of Atharoth by Ramma, in the tribe of Joseph, and of another in the tribe of Ephraim, now a village at the north of Sebaste, or Samaria, four miles from it, called Atharus; the former is here meant.

(b) De loc. Heb. fol. 88. G.

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The Territory of Ephraim
1And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, to the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goes up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel, 2And goes out from Bethel to Luz, and passes along to the borders of Archi to Ataroth, 3And goes down westward to the coast of Japhleti, to the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer; and the goings out thereof are at the sea. …

Joshua 18:13 From there it crossed to the south slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth Addar on the hill south of Lower Beth Horon.
2 Samuel 15:32 When David arrived at the summit, where people used to worship God, Hushai the Arkite was there to meet him, his robe torn and dust on his head.
1 Chronicles 7:28 Their lands and settlements included Bethel and its surrounding villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages all the way to Ayyah and its villages.