1 Chronicles 7:22

22 Efrayim their father mourned for a long time, and his kinsmen came to comfort him.

1 Chronicles 7:22 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 7:22

And Ephraim their father mourned many days
For the loss of his son and grandchildren for the above fact was done while the Israelites were in Egypt, and Ephraim the patriarch yet alive; nor is there any need to suppose another Ephraim, different from him:

and his brethren came to comfort him;
some of the heads of the other tribes of Israel, particularly Manasseh, with some of his family.

1 Chronicles 7:22 In-Context

20 The descendants of Efrayim were: Shutelach, his son Bered, his son Tachat, his son El'adah, his son Tachat,

21 his son Zavad and his son Shutelach; also 'Ezer and El'ad, whom the men of Gat born in the land killed when they came down to raid their cattle.

22 Efrayim their father mourned for a long time, and his kinsmen came to comfort him.

23 Then he had sexual relations with his wife, and she conceived and bore a son whom he called B'ri'ah [in calamity], because his household had suffered a calamity.

24 His daughter was She'erah, who built upper and lower Beit-Horon and Uzen-She'erah.