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Psalm 132:6

Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar.

4I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,
5until I find out a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
6Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar.
7“We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool.”
8Arise, LORD, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength.
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Ephrathah and the field of Jaar give this brief account a map, while the move from hearing to finding leaves much of the story untold.

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1 Samuel 7:1The men of Kiriath Jearim came and took the LORD’s ark, and brought it into Abinadab’s house on the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep the LORD’s …Jaar points toward Kiriath Jearim, where the account describes the LORD’s ark being brought into Abinadab’s house and entrusted to Eleazar.
1 Samuel 17:12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.Ephrathah shares its name with David’s Ephrathite family background, which Samuel locates in Bethlehem Judah.
Ruth 4:11All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like …Ephrathah appears in both passages, as the place of hearing in the psalm and a place named in the blessing in Ruth.
Micah 5:2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from …Both passages name Ephrathah, though Micah speaks of a ruler and the psalm recounts hearing and finding.
1 Chronicles 13:3Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again, for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”The psalm’s account of finding the ark shares the concern for the ark expressed in the call to bring it back.
Genesis 35:16They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.The shared thread is the place name Ephrathah or Ephrath; Genesis describes travel toward it during Rachel’s hard labor.
Ruth 1:2The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came …Ephrathah and Ephrathites provide a link through a place name; Ruth identifies Naomi’s family as Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah.
Genesis 35:19Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).Ephrathah shares its place name with Ephrath, which Genesis identifies as Bethlehem in its account of Rachel’s burial.
1 Chronicles 13:5–6So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor River of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim.Jaar and Kiriath Jearim connect the locations, while both passages concern the ark and the people gathered around its history.
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Encouragement

Some details remain hard to trace, yet the surrounding lines make the purpose clear: finding the ark leads toward worship of YHWH, whose strength it represents.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).