19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem(A)).

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19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath(A) (that is, Bethlehem(B)).

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12 Now David was the son of the Ephrathite(A) from Bethlehem of Judah named Jesse. Jesse had eight sons(B) and during Saul’s reign was already an old man.

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12 Now David was the son of an Ephrathite(A) named Jesse,(B) who was from Bethlehem(C) in Judah. Jesse had eight(D) sons, and in Saul’s time he was very old.

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Penuel fathered Gedor, and Ezer fathered Hushah.

These were the sons of Hur, Ephrathah’s firstborn and the father of Bethlehem:

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Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah.

These were the descendants of Hur,(A) the firstborn of Ephrathah and father[a] of Bethlehem.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 4:4 Father may mean civic leader or military leader; also in verses 12, 14, 17, 18 and possibly elsewhere.

Bethlehem Ephrathah,(A)
you are small among the clans of Judah;
one will come from you(B)
to be ruler over Israel for me.(C)
His origin[a] is from antiquity,(D)
from ancient times.

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  1. 5:2 Lit His going out

“But you, Bethlehem(A) Ephrathah,(B)
    though you are small among the clans[a] of Judah,
out of you will come for me
    one who will be ruler(C) over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,(D)
    from ancient times.”(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 5:2 Or rulers