Psalms 132:6
Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar.
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Psalms 132:6
Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar.
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Psalms 132:7
“We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool.”
Psalms 132:8
Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength.
Psalms 132:9
Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!
Psalms 132:10
For your servant David’s sake, don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
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Micah 5:2
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
Genesis 35:16
They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
Genesis 35:17
When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”
Genesis 35:18
As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Genesis 35:19
Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).
Ruth 4:11
All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
Genesis 48:7
As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”
1 Samuel 17:12
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.
Ruth 1:2
The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab and lived there.
Matthew 2:1
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,
Matthew 2:6
‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah; for out of you shall come a governor who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’ ”
Luke 2:4
Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,
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1 Samuel 7:1
The men of Kiriath Jearim came and took Yahweh’s ark, and brought it into Abinadab’s house on the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep Yahweh’s ark.
1 Samuel 7:2
From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long—for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after Yahweh.
1 Chronicles 13:5
So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor River of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim.
1 Chronicles 13:6
David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there God Yahweh’s ark that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name.
1 Samuel 6:21
They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have brought back Yahweh’s ark. Come down and bring it up to yourselves.”
1 Chronicles 13:3
Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again, for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”
Joshua 18:1
The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.
2 Samuel 6:1
David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
2 Chronicles 1:4
But David had brought God’s ark up from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
Ezra 2:25
The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.
Jeremiah 26:20
There was also a man who prophesied in Yahweh’s name, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.
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Psalms 132:1
Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,
Psalms 132:3
“Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed;
Psalms 132:4
I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,
Psalms 132:5
until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
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Judges 12:5
The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No;”
1 Kings 11:26
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.
1 Samuel 1:1
Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
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2 Samuel 24:18
Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
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1 Chronicles 2:19
Azubah died, and Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.
1 Chronicles 2:50
These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim,
1 Chronicles 4:4
Penuel was the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.
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