1 Chronicles 7:22

22 And E'phraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers 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 sons of E'phraim: Shuthe'lah, and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Ele-a'dah his son, Tahath his son,

21 Zabad his son, Shuthe'lah his son, and Ezer and E'le-ad, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land slew, because they came down to raid their cattle.

22 And E'phraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

23 And E'phraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name Beri'ah, because evil had befallen his house.

24 His daughter was She'erah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth-hor'on, and Uz'zen-she'erah.