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Joshua 16:2

Then goes out from Bethel to Luz, and passes along to the borders of the Archites to Ataroth,
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
To Luza. The Vulgate reads Bethel Luza, which may be supposed to be two names, (chap. xviii. 13.; Haydock) for the same city. (Menochius) (Genesis xxviii. 29.) Bethel was probably the country, (Calmet) or mountain, (Haydock) to the east of Luza, on the frontiers of Benjamin and of Ephraim; for which reason it is sometimes attributed to both. To Atharoth. This city, and Archi, are supposed by some to be the same city. Archi seems, however, to have been a distinct place, where Chusai ws born, 2 Kings xv. 32. Atharoth is styled Addar, "the illustrious "ver. 5. It was 15 miles from Jericho.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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