1 Chronicles 7:23
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New International Version (©1984)
Then he lay with his wife again, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. He named him Beriah, because there had been misfortune in his family.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Afterward Ephraim slept with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Ephraim named him Beriah because of the tragedy his family had suffered.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son. And he called his name Beriah, because disaster had befallen his house.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because misfortune had come upon his house.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then he slept with his wife, and she became pregnant. She gave birth to a son, and Ephraim named him Beriah [Tragedy], because tragedy had come to his home.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, because tragedy came to his house.

American King James Version
And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

American Standard Version
And 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he went in to his wife: and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beria, because he was born when it went evil with his house:

Darby Bible Translation
And he went in to his wife; and she conceived, and bore a son; and he called his name Beriah, for he was born when calamity was in his house.

English Revised Version
And 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when he went in to his wife, she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

World English Bible
He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

Young's Literal Translation
and he goeth in unto his wife, and she conceiveth and beareth a son, and he calleth his name Beriah, because in evil had been his house, --

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when he went in to his wife,.... After his grief and sorrow in part at least had subsided:

she conceived and bare a son; which in some measure made up for the loss he had sustained:

and he called his name Beriah; which signifies being "in evil" or calamity, he being born in an evil time:

because it went evil with his house; or evil was in his house, as Noldius (m), in his family; a great calamity had befallen it.

(m) Ebr. Concord. Part. No. 750. p. 165.


Geneva Study Bible

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.


Wesley's Notes

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


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:1-40 Genealogies. - Here is no account either of Zebulun or Dan. We can assign no reason why they only should be omitted; but it is the disgrace of the tribe of Dan, that idolatry began in that colony which fixed in Laish, and called it Dan, Jud 18 and there one of the golden calves was set up by Jeroboam. Dan is omitted, Re 7. Men become abominable when they forsake the worship of the true God, for any creature object.


1 Chronicles 7:22 Their father Ephraim mourned for them many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
1 Chronicles 7:24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth Horon as well as Uzzen Sheerah.

Bare Befallen Beriah Beri'ah Bore Born Calamity Child Conceived Conceiveth Connection E'phraim Evil House Lay Misfortune Pregnant Trouble Wife


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.

Beriah that is, In evil

because Many similar instances of the naming of children from passing circumstances, occur throughout the sacred volume. See those of a similar character with this verse: Ge 35:18, where Rachel, while dying, names her new-born son Ben-oni, or, the son of my sorrow. So in 1SA 4:21, the wife of Phinehas, on being apprised of the death of Eli and her husband, and that the ark was taken by the Philistines, while in the pains of travail, and dying, named her son I-chabod, or, there is no glory. So also in the 4th chapter of this book, ver. 9, we read that Jabez, or, sorrowful, had that name given to him, because his mother `bare him with sorrow.' 2Sa 23:5

1 Chronicles Chapter 7 Verse 23

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