1 Chronicles 7:23

23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beri`ah, because it went evil with his house.

1 Chronicles 7:23 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 7:23

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 ^F13, in his family; a great calamity had befallen it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Ebr. Concord. Part. No. 750. p. 165.

1 Chronicles 7:23 In-Context

21 and Zavad his son, and Shutelach his son, and Etzer, and El'ad, whom the men of Gat who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their cattle.

22 Efrayim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beri`ah, because it went evil with his house.

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

25 Refach was his son, and Reshef, and Telach his son, and Tachan his son,