1 Chronicles 7:22

And Ephraim their father mourned many dayes, and his brethren came to comfort him.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

Their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
- American Standard Version (1901)

And for a long time Ephraim their father went on weeping for them, and his brothers came to give him comfort.
- Basic English Bible

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

And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
- Webster's Bible

Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
- World English Bible

And Ephraim their father mourneth many days, and his brethren come in to comfort him,
- Youngs Literal Bible

And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Wesley's Notes for 1 Chronicles 7:22

7:21 Slew - This history is not recorded else where in scripture, butit is in the ancient Hebrew writers. The Philistines (one of whosecities Gath was) and the Egyptians were next neighbours; and inthose ancient times it was usual for such to make inroads one intoanother's country, and to carry thence what prey they could take.And as the Philistines had probably made such inroads formerly intoEgypt, and particularly into the land of Goshen, which was theutmost part of Egypt bordering upon the Philistines land; so theIsraelites might requite them in the like kind: and particularly thechildren of Ephraim, to their own loss. And this seems to have happeneda little before the Egyptian persecution, and before the reign of thatnew king mentioned #Exod 1:8|.And this clause, that were born in that land, may be added emphatically,as the motive which made them more resolute in their fight with theEphraimites, because they fought in, and for their own land, whereinall their wealth and concerns lay.

7:23 Bare a son - Thus the breach was in some measure repaired, by theaddition of another son in his old age. When God thus restores comfortto his mourners, he makes glad according to the days wherein heafflicted, setting the mercies over against the crosses, we ought toobserve the kindness of his providence. Yet the joy that a man was borninto his family could not make him forget his grief. For he gives amelancholy name to his son, Beriah, that is, in trouble: for he wasborn when the family was in mourning. It is good to have in remembrancethe affliction and the misery which are past, that our souls may behumbled within us.