Chronicles I 7:22

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

Chronicles I 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.

Chronicles I 7:22 In-Context

20 And the sons of Ephraim; Sothalath, and Barad his son, and Thaath his son, Elada his son, Saath his son,

21 and Zabad his son, Sothele his son, and Azer, and Elead: and the men of Geth who were born in the land slew them, because they went down to take their cattle.

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

23 And he went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name Beria, because, , he was afflicted in my house.

24 And his daughter Saraa, and he was among them that were left, and he built Baethoron the upper and the lower. And the descendants of Ozan Seera,