Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because there was trouble with his house. His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah. Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son, Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, Nun his son, and Joshua his son.
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The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah. The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead. Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maacah. The name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters. Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh. The name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam. The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son, Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock. Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because there was trouble with his house. His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah. Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son, Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, Nun his son, and Joshua his son. Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns; and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these. The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Serah was their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith. Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister. The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet. The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal. The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera. The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara. The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia. All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
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Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because there was trouble with his house.
His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son,
Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
Nun his son, and Joshua his son.
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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 Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)
And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
Non his son, Jehoshua his son.
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And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
And he went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
And his daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth-horon the nether and the upper, and Uzzen-sheerah.
And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son;
Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son;
Nun his son, Joshua his son.
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- Numbers 13:16 (v27) These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
- Deuteronomy 31:23 (v27) He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which…
- Joshua 16:3 (v24) and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, and on to Gezer; and ended at the sea.
- Joshua 16:5 (v24) This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to…
- Numbers 27:18 (v27) Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.
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- Genesis 37:34 (v22) Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
- Exodus 17:9-14 (v27) Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my…
- Exodus 24:13 (v27) Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.
- Numbers 13:8 (v27) Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
- 2 Chronicles 8:5 (v24) Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
- Job 2:11 (v22) Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad…
- Exodus 32:17 (v27) When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”
- Numbers 11:28 (v27) Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”
- Numbers 14:6 (v27) Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.
- Joshua 10:10 (v24) Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth…
- 2 Samuel 23:5 (v23) Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation,…
- 1 Kings 9:17 (v24) Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower,
- Acts 7:45 (v27) which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out…
- Hebrews 4:8 (v27) For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv22, 24, 25 Or, kinsfolk.
Or, kinsfolk.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv22–24 1Ch 7:22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days,…
1Ch 7:22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
Ver. 22. And Ephraim their father.] Who must needs be now a very old man.
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Mourned many days.] His grief was the greater, if they went against the Gittites without his consent, as many young men are headlong and headstrong, &c.
And his brethren came to comfort him.] The Benjamites also set upon the men of Gath, and took their city from them. {1Ch 8:13} Atque sic ulti sunt fratres suos Ephraemitas.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv22, 24, 26 Ephraim their father; either,
Ephraim their father; either,
1. That Ephraim of whom he speaks, 1Ch 7:20, whose sons are here named. But that to many seems hard, especially if these several sons, named 1Ch 7:20,21, be understood successively, so as each man be the son of him who is named next and immediately before him, which seems most probable; for so here are seven successive generations of Ephraim, which it is not likely that Ephraim lived to see; for then he must have been near two hundred years old. Although it is not necessary that the persons here said to be slain should be that generation which was last mentioned; but the particle whom may belong to the other sons of Ephraim of the fourth, or fifth, or sixth generation. Nor is the word whom in the Hebrew text, which runs thus, and the men of Gath slew them, i.e. the sons of Ephraim in the general, as they are expressed in the beginning of 1Ch 7:20, without respect to this or that particular generation. And the relative particle them may be referred not unto the persons last named, but unto some of the other and more remote persons; this being a common observation of Hebricians, that the relative oft belongs to the remoter antecedent. Or,
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2. Zabad the father of the three persons and families last named, who might possibly have two names, and be called both Zabad and Ephraim. Or rather, the name of Ephraim may be put patronymically (as the learned speak) for the son and successor of Ephraim; who being now in Ephraim’s stead the head of the tribe, as old Ephraim was in his time, might well be called by the same name. Thus Isaac is put for his son Jacob or Israel, Amo 7:9, and Moses for the sons of Moses, Psa 90:1, and David for his son Rehoboam, 1Ki 12:16, and for Christ, Jer 30:9; Eze 34:23, and (as many think) Abraham for Jacob, Abraham’s grandchild, Act 7:16. And these words,
their father, seem to be added by way of distinction, to show that he meant not this of the old Ephraim, but of another, who was father to the three persons said to be slain, 1Ch 7:21. For if he had understood this of the first Ephraim, having called these the sons of Ephraim, it might seem superfluous and tautological to tell us that Ephraim was their father. His brethren, i.e. his kinsmen, as that word is frequently used.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv22–25 The son of Asher,.... Which, and his two grandsons…
The son of Asher,.... Which, and his two grandsons born before Jacob went down to Egypt, are here reckoned as in Gen 46:17 only it is here added Malchiel his second grandson:
who is the father of Birzavith; which Jarchi interprets, prince of a city of this name, which signifies pure oil; which it might have from the abundance of olives about it, Asher being a tribe which abounded with them, see Deu 33:24 though some of the Rabbins take it to be the name of a man, whose daughters, they say, as Jarchi observes, were very beautiful, having much oil to anoint with, and were married to kings and priests anointed with oil.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v23 Bare a son - Thus the breach was in…
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.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v24 Verse 24. His daughter was Sherah] That is, remnant;…
Verse 24. His daughter was Sherah] That is, remnant; "called so," says the Targum, "because she was the remnant that escaped from the slaughter mentioned above."
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv23–24 1Ch 7:23. She conceived and bare a son —…
1Ch 7:23. She conceived and 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.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v24 Sherah could scarcely herself have built the Palestinian cities…
Sherah could scarcely herself have built the Palestinian cities here mentioned, which must belong to a time not earlier than Joshua. By “she built” we must understand “her descendants built.”
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv23–25 Beria. This name signifies, in evil, or in affection.…
Beria. This name signifies, in evil, or in affection. (Challoner) --- Briae, "in howling." (Menochius)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv23, 24, 27 23. Beriah, because it went evil] Heb. Beriah because…
23. Beriah, because it went evil] Heb. Beriah because it went beraah, a play on the sound of the name. Cp. Gen_30:11.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv22–27 (22-23) This is either what we should call a…
(22-23) This is either what we should call a metaphorical description of the enfeebling of the tribe of Ephraim by the disaster which had befallen two of its chief houses, and of its subsequent recovery owing to the natural increase of its numbers, and the formation of a new and populous clan, that of Beriah; or if this be deemed too bold an interpretation of the archaic record, we have nothing for it but to suppose that the whole account relates to an expedition from Goshen, under two sons of Ephraim, during the lifetime of that patriarch; who, after the death of Ezer and Elead, begat another son, Beriah.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv22, 24, 25, 27 Mourning and consolation.
HOMILIES BY J.R. THOMSON
Mourning and consolation.
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There is much obscurity about this passage, as recording a historical incident. But, though it is not easy to decide who the persons referred to were and at what time they lived, the incident is a witness to the community of human nature, both in the bitterness of the earthly lot and in the consolations with which it abounds. We have here brought before us
I BEREAVEMENT. From the first it has been the fate of men to endure this sorrow, for our days on earth are as a shadow, and death takes away from us all in turn the joys of our hearts, the desire of our eyes, the objects of our hopes. And it is to be observed that the sudden and violent death of our beloved ones is peculiarly distressing. When the young are cut down by wicked hands, in tumult or in war, the shock to survivors is especially painful.
II MOURNING. Lamentation for our dead is natural and right. "Jesus wept" at Lazarus"s grave. There is such a thing as sanctified sorrow. In certain cases, even poignant grief and prolonged mourning are excusable. "The heart knoweth his own bitterness." The parent weeps for the children because they are not.
III SYMPATHY AND CONSOLATION. Those who are near akin or intimate friends are expected to offer their affectionate condolence to the bereaved in the hour of sorrow and desolation. This is the obligation of friendship and its privilege also. Helpful and consolatory is true sympathy; for who would wish to bear his heaviest burden alone? Yet the most profitable ministrations in bereavement are those by which the heart of the bereaved is directed to take refuge in the fatherly wisdom and love of God, and in the tender sympathy of that High Priest who "in all our afflictions.., is afflicted," and who is "touched with the feeling of our infirmities. T.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv23, 25 She conceived and bore a son
She conceived and bore a son
"She became pregnant and gave birth to a son"
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called him
"named him"
Beriah
This is the name of a man. (See: How to Translate Names)
Sheerah
This is the name of a woman. (See: How to Translate Names)
Upper Beth Horon and Uzzen Sheerah
These are names of towns. (See: How to Translate Names)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v22 7:22 The father of Ezer and Elead is recorded…
7:22 The father of Ezer and Elead is recorded as Ephraim, but Ephraim the son of Joseph could not have settled in Canaan after the Exodus. The traditional solution was to imagine an early exodus for the family of Ephraim. Other possibilities are that the name Ephraim is a scribal mistake or that Ephraim referred to the tribe rather than the son of Joseph who bore the name.
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