Joshua 16:7
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New International Version (©2011)
Then it went down from Janoah to Ataroth and Naarah, touched Jericho and came out at the Jordan.

New Living Translation (©2007)
From Janoah it turned southward to Ataroth and Naarah, touched Jericho, and ended at the Jordan River.

English Standard Version (©2001)
then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, and touches Jericho, ending at the Jordan.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
It went down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, then reached Jericho and came out at the Jordan.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
From Janoah it descended to Ataroth and Naarah, and then reached Jericho and went to the Jordan.

International Standard Version (©2012)
It proceeded from Janoah to Ataroth, then to Naarah, then proceeded to Jericho and ended at the Jordan River.

NET Bible (©2006)
It then descended from Janoah to Ataroth and Naarah, touched Jericho, and extended to the Jordan River.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
From Janoah it descends to Ataroth and Naarah, touches Jericho, and ends at the Jordan River.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and came to Jericho, and came out at the Jordan.

American King James Version
And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.

American Standard Version
and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached unto Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it goeth down from Janoe into Ataroth and Naaratha: and it cometh to Jericho, and goeth out to the Jordan.

Darby Bible Translation
and went down from Janohah to Ataroth and Naarath, and touched upon Jericho, and went out to the Jordan.

English Revised Version
and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached unto Jericho, and went out at Jordan.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and terminated at Jordan.

World English Bible
It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.

Young's Literal Translation
and gone down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and touched against Jericho, and gone out at the Jordan.

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 7. - Ataroth. Another Ataroth, on the northern border of Ephraim. The name, which signifies crowns is a common one (see Numbers 32:3, 34, 35; 1 Chronicles 2:54). Came to Jericho. Or perhaps skirted Jericho. The word used (see note on ver. 5) is akin to the Latin pango and our impinge.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And it went down from Johanan to Ataroth,.... This is different from Ataroth before mentioned, Joshua 16:2; there were several places of this name, as before observed; this seems to be that which Jerom places four miles from Sebaste or Samaria; see Gill on Joshua 16:2,

and to Naarath; Jerom (g) says, that Naarath was in his time called Naorath, a village of the Jews, five miles from Jericho; and is the village Josephus (h) calls Neara, where was a water, half of which Archelaus turned, and led to the field planted with palm trees, near Jericho; and, according to the Jewish writers (i): there was a place called Noaran near to Jericho, which seems to be this:

and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan; where it ended this way, which was eastward.

(g) De loc. Heb. fol. 93. I.((h) Antiqu. l. 17. c. 15. sect. 1.((i) Vajikra Rabba, sect. 23. fol. 164. 3. Shirhashirim Rabba, fol. 9. 3. Echa Rabbati, fol. 50. 4.

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The Territory of Ephraim
…6And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward to Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah; 7And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan. 8The border went out from Tappuah westward to the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families. …

Joshua 16:6 and continued to the Mediterranean Sea. From Mikmethath on the north it curved eastward to Taanath Shiloh, passing by it to Janoah on the east.
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.