a little way to come] (2 Kings 5:19.) That is, lesse then a mile from Bethlehem, as some say that have seene it. Ephrath] Ephrath is derived of the word Pharah signifying he hath made fruitfull, or (as some conjecture) from Ephrath the wife of Caleb, 1 Chronicles 2:19. and Bethlehem signifieth the house of bread; the Prophet Micah joynes both names together, Micah 5:2. There was another Bethlehem in Galilee in the portion of the Tribe of Zebulun, for distinction from which this is called Bethlehem of Judea, because it was in the portion of the Tribe of Judah; and in this Bethlehem was our Saviour borne, Matthew 2:1. And he was (as some observe (as by way of fit correspondence betwixt the person and the place) the bread that came down from heaven, John 6:33.