Jos 16:3 | TNotes | STEP | 16:3 Ephraim’s border followed the ascent from lower to upper Beth-horon (see 16:5 ), giving this tribe control of one of the two main roads to Jerusalem from the west. • Gezer , a large and important Canaanite town at the juncture of the coastal plain and the hill country, apparently did not come into Israel’s possession until the time of Solomon (see Judg 1:29 ; 1 Kgs 9:16 ).

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d1 Kgs 9:16►

‏ Joshua 16:3

16:3 ^a Ephraim’s border followed the ascent from lower to upper Beth-horon (see 16:5 ^b), giving this tribe control of one of the two main roads to Jerusalem from the west.

• Gezer, a large and important Canaanite town at the juncture of the coastal plain and the hill country, apparently did not come into Israel’s possession until the time of Solomon (see Judg 1:29 ^c; 1 Kgs 9:16 ^d).