And they passed thence unto Mount Ephraim,.... Steering their coast still northward; this, according to Bunting b, was eight miles from Kirjathjearim, or Mahanehdan, in which Micah's house was, for as yet they were not come to it, see Judges 18:15.
b Ibid. (Travels of the Patriarchs, &c. p. 112.)