Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
Ver. 6. Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah] At Bethlehem Ephratah, David's birth place, there we heard of it long since by our progenitors. "Of it," that is, of the ark, saith Chrysostom; of God's resting place, saith Austin; of the place where Christ should be born, saith Jerome; where the temple should be set, saith Aben Ezra; where the Shechinah, or Divine presence should reside, say other Rabbis, Dicit eam in foemin, i.e. diviuam praesentiam (R. Arama).
We found it in the fields of the wood] At Jerusalem, say some; or at Kirjathjearim, as others will have it. The Chaldee interpreteth it of the wood of Libanus; the place, saith he, where the patriarchs worshipped.