John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"and the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the vale of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel;" — Joshua 18:16 (ASV)
And the border came down
In the description of the border of Judah, hereabout, it is said to go up, (Joshua 15:5) ; because there, as Jarchi observes, the measure was from east to west, but here from west to east:
to the end of the mountain that [lieth] before the valley of the son
of Hinnom ;
this south border of Benjamin is the same with the north border of Judah; and the same places are mentioned in the description of the one as of the other, see (Joshua 15:8) . The mountain is Mount Moriah,
[and] which [is] in the valley of the giants on the north ;
on the north of the valley of Rephaim:
and descended to the valley of Hinnom ;
the border from the end of Mount Moriah to that valley:
to the side of Jebusi on the south ;
to the south side of Jerusalem, having that city on the south;
and descended to Enrogel; of which (See Gill on Joshua 15:7).