The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Bethel;
"And the lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel; and it went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along the border of the Archites to Ataroth; and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, unto the border of Beth-horon the nether, even unto Gezer; and the goings out thereof were at the sea.  And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim took their inheritance."      One problem here is that Bethel and Luz are often understood as two different names for the same place; but as Plummer noted: "The new city did not coincide precisely in its site with the old."[10]  It was like old and new Carthage, or the old Jericho and new Jericho, as we observed in the N.T.