"And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him." — 1 Chronicles 7:22

1 Chronicles 7:22 · KJV

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

— 1 Chronicles 7:22

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.

Verse 23

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.

1 Chronicles 7 — Context

And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,

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.

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

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.

(And his daughter {was} Sherah, who built Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)

Cross References

Job 2:11

Now 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: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

Genesis 37:34

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

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