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House of bread. There is a church still existing, built by Constantine the Great (1.) A city in the "hill country" of Judah. It was originally called Ephrath (GenD. 35:16330), 19; 48:7; Ruth 4:11). It was also called Beth-lehem Ephratah (Micah 5:2), Beth-lehem-judah (1 Sam. 17:12), and the "Church of the city of DavidNativity," (Luke 2:4). It is first noticed in Scripture as over a grotto or cave called the place where Rachel died and was buried "by the waysideholy crypt," directly and said to be the north of the city (Gen. 48:7). The valley to the east was the scene of the story of Ruth the Moabitess. There are the fields "stable" in which she gleaned, and the path by which she and Naomi returned to the town. Here Jesus was David's birth-place, and here also, in after years, he was anointed as king by Samuel (1 Samborn. 16:4-13); and it was from This is perhaps the well of Bethlehem that three of his heroes brought water for him at the risk of their lives when he was oldest existing Christian church in the cave of Adullam (2 Samworld. 23:13-17). But Close to it was distinguished above every other city as is another grotto, where [[Jerome]] the birth-place of "Him whose goings forth Latin father is said to have been spent thirty years of old" (Matt. 2:6; comp. Micah 5:2). Afterwards Herod, "when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men," sent and slew "all the children that were in Bethlehem, and his life in all translating the coasts thereof, from two years old and under" Scriptures into Latin. (Matt. 2:16, 18; JerSee VERSION. 31:15).

Bethlehem bears the modern name (2.) A city of [[Text:EBD:Zebulun, Lot of |Zebulun]], mentioned only in Josh. 19:15. Now Beit-Lahm, i.e., "house of flesh." It is a ruined village about 5 6 miles south west-north-west of Jerusalem, standing at an elevation of about 2,550 feet above the sea, thus 100 feet higher than Jerusalem[[Text:EBD:Nazareth|Nazareth]]. {{returnto}} [[Easton's Bible Dictionary]] | [[Bethlehem]]

There is a church still existing, built by Constantine the Great (A.D. 330), called the "Church of the Nativity," over a grotto or cave called the "holy crypt," and said to be the "stable" in which Jesus was born. This is perhaps the oldest existing Christian church in the world. Close to it is another grotto, where Jerome the Latin father is said to have spent thirty years of his life in translating the Scriptures into Latin. (See VERSION.) (2.) A city of Zebulun, mentioned only in Josh. 19:15. Now Beit-Lahm, a ruined village about 6 miles west-north-west of Nazareth. {{returnto}} [[Easton's Bible DictionaryCategory:Places in The Holy Land]]