Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Lo, we heard of it in Ephrathah: We found it in the field of the wood.
New American Standard Bible
We found it in the
King James Version
Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
Holman Bible
we found it in the fields of Jaar.
International Standard Version
We heard about it in Ephrata; we found it in the fields of Jaar.
A Conservative Version
Lo, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of the wood.
Amplified
Behold, we heard of it at Ephrathah;
We found it in the field of Jaar.
Darby Translation
Behold, we heard of it at Ephratah, we found it in the fields of the wood.
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, we heard it in Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the forest
King James 2000
Lo, we heard of it at Ephrathah: we found it in the fields of the woods.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found her in the fields of Jaar.
Modern King James verseion
Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah; we found it in the fields of the wood.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Lo, we heard of the same at Ephrata, and found it in the wood.
NET Bible
Look, we heard about it in Ephrathah, we found it in the territory of Jaar.
New Heart English Bible
Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar:
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! we heard of it at Ephrathah, we found it in the fields of the wood.
Webster
Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
World English Bible
Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar:
Youngs Literal Translation
'Lo, we have heard it in Ephratah, We have found it in the fields of the forest.
Themes
Bethlehem » A city » A city southwest of jerusalem » Called ephratah and ephrath
Ephratah » Also called ephrath » The ancient name of beth-lehem-judah
References
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 132:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
David And Zion Chosen
5 Until I find out a place for Jehovah, A tabernacle for the Mighty One of Jacob. 6 Lo, we heard of it in Ephrathah: We found it in the field of the wood. 7 We will go into his tabernacles; We will worship at his footstool.
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:12
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken in years among men.
1 Samuel 7:1
And the men of Kiriath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Jehovah, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Jehovah.
Genesis 35:19
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).
Ruth 1:2
And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
1 Chronicles 13:5-6
So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt even unto the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
Micah 5:2
But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.