1 Chronicles 7:22

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

Revised Version 1895

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, whom the men of Gath that were born in the land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.

23And he went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:34And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

Job 2:11Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: and they made an appointment 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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