1 Chronicles 7:23

He slept with his wife. She conceived and bore a son. Ephraim called him Beriah, because tragedy had come to his family.)

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And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

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22Ephraim their father mourned for them many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

24His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth Horon and Uzzen Sheerah.

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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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