1 Chronicles 7:22

And their father Ephraim mourns many days, and his brothers come to comfort him,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

In Context

21and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead; and men of Gath who are born in the land have slain them because they came down to take their livestock.

23and he goes in to his wife, and she conceives and bears a son, and he calls his name Beriah, because his house had been in calamity—

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Cross References

Genesis 37:34And Jacob tears his raiment, and puts sackcloth on his loins, and becomes a mourner for his son many days,

Job 2:11And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that has come on him, and they each come in from his place—Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—and they have met together to come to bemoan him, and to comfort him;

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 7:21-40

Genealogies. ( b. c. 1630.) 20 And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son, 21 And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle. 22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him. 23 And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went… Read the whole commentary →

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