An Ephrathite] As the Jewes are called Cretes, and Arabians, Parthians, Medes, Elamites, &c. because borne and bred up in those, Countreys, Acts II. 9, 10, 11. For though borne, or at least dwelling in Mount Ephraim in Ramah; yet was Elkanah, and so Samuel his son, of the posterity of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, 1 Chron. VI. 33,—38.