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Christian Standard Bible ®

1 Chronicles 7:22

Their father Ephraim mourned a long time, and his relatives came to comfort him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Beriah;   Ephraim;   Thompson Chain Reference - Comfort;   Comfort-Misery;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Consolation;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Beriah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Ephraim (1);   Joha;   Nun;   Shuthelah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Beriah;   Beth-Horon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Beri'ah;   Shu'thelah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amram;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Beriah;   Ephraim;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Efrayim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
King James Version
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
English Standard Version
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
New Century Version
Their father Ephraim cried for them many days, and his family came to comfort him.
New English Translation
Their father Ephraim mourned for them many days and his brothers came to console him.
Amplified Bible
Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
New American Standard Bible
Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
World English Bible
Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore Ephraim their father mourned many dayes, and his brethren came to comfort him.
Legacy Standard Bible
And their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
Berean Standard Bible
Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
Contemporary English Version
Ephraim mourned for his sons a long time, and his relatives came to comfort him.
Complete Jewish Bible
Efrayim their father mourned for a long time, and his kinsmen came to comfort him.
Darby Translation
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
Easy-to-Read Version
Ephraim was the father of Ezer and Elead. He cried for many days because Ezer and Elead were dead. Ephraim's family came to comfort him.
George Lamsa Translation
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
Good News Translation
Their father Ephraim mourned for them for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
Lexham English Bible
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
Literal Translation
And their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And their father Ephraim mourned for them a longe season, and his brethren came to comforte him.
American Standard Version
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
Bible in Basic English
And for a long time Ephraim their father went on weeping for them, and his brothers came to give him comfort.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Ephraim their father mourned many a day, and his brethren came to comfort hym.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
King James Version (1611)
And Ephraim their father mourned many dayes, and his brethren came to comfort him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
English Revised Version
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Effraym, the fadir of hem, weilide bi many daies; and hise britheren camen to coumforte hym.
Update Bible Version
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
New King James Version
Then Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
New Living Translation
Their father, Ephraim, mourned for them a long time, and his relatives came to comfort him.
New Life Bible
Their father Ephraim was filled with sorrow for many days. And his brothers came to comfort him.
New Revised Standard
And their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, - and his brethren came to comfort him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
Revised Standard Version
And E'phraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
Young's Literal Translation
And Ephraim their father mourneth many days, and his brethren come in to comfort him,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.

Contextual Overview

20Ephraim’s sons: Shuthelah, and his son Bered, 21his son Zabad, 22Their father Ephraim mourned a long time, and his relatives came to comfort him. 23He slept with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. So he named him Beriah, because there had been misfortune in his home. 24His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah, 25his son Rephah, his son Resheph, 26his son Ladan, his son Ammihud, 27his son Nun, 28Their holdings and settlements were Bethel and its surrounding villages; Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages, 29and along the borders of the descendants of Manasseh, Beth-shean, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor with their surrounding villages. The sons of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

mourned: Genesis 37:34

and his brethren: Job 2:11

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 7:2 - whose number John 11:19 - to comfort

Cross-References

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 6:17
“Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.


 
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