Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 16:1

AND the lot of the children of Joseph * fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the † water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Peth-el;

i. e. Of Ephraim, and the half Tribe of Manasseh, which are here put together in one; not because they had but one Lot, for Ephraim had one here, v. 5. and Manasseh another, Ios. 17. 1. but because in these first Verses he speaks of them in common, and of the South border, which seems to be the same, either wholly or in a great part: and then he comes to the particular description of their several portions. It is here farther remarkable, that God so disposed of these Lots, that they came forth in decent and due order; Iudah's first, to whom the Sovereignty was promised; and then Ioseph's, who succeeded Reuben in the other Priviledg of the Birth-right, the double-portion, 1 Chron. 5. 1, 2.

Of which see 2 King. 2. 19, 20, 21, 22.

The Wilderness of Beth-aven, as appears by comparing Ios. 18. 12. which speaks of the very same border which was on the South of Ephraim, and on the North of Benjamin.

Marginal references: ‡ Heb. W[illegible: 1+ letters] forth.