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His border; either,
1. Manasseh’s, whose portion is here described, and whose name was last mentioned. Or,
2. Ephraim’s and Manasseh’s, both expressed in the foregoing words, and implied in the following,
they.
In Asher, i.e. upon the tribe of Asher; for though Zebulun came between Asher and them for the greatest part of their land, yet it seems there were some necks or parcels of land, both of Ephraim’s and of Manasseh’s, which jutted out farther than the rest, and touched the borders of Asher. And it is certain there were many such incursions of the land of one tribe upon some parcels of another, although they were otherwise considerably distant one from the other. See Jos_19:34. And you must not judge of these things by the present maps, which are drawn according to the opinions of late authors, which many times are false; and they are to be judged by the Scripture, and not the Scripture by them: but that part of Manasseh did reach to Asher, appears from hence, that Dor, a city of Manasseh, Jos_17:11, was, as Josephus witnesseth, near Carmel, which belonged to Asher, Jos_19:26.