John Gill Commentary Joshua 16:2

"and it went out from Beth-el to Luz, and passed along unto the border of the Archites to Ataroth;" — Joshua 16:2 (ASV)

And goes 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 38:11Genesis 38:19) ; and therefore may properly be distinguished, as they are here:

and passes along unto the borders Archi to Ataroth ;
or to Archiataroth; these two words are the name of one and the same place, and should be joined as they are in the Greek version and others; it is the same with Atarothaddar, (Joshua 16:5) (18:13) . Ataroth was its proper name, but it had these additional epithets to distinguish it from another Ataroth; see (Joshua 16:7) ; Jerom ^F2 mentions 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F2: De loc. Heb. fol. 88. G.