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New Century Version

1 Chronicles 7:22

Their father Ephraim cried for them many days, and his family 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

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

20 These are the names of Ephraim's descendants. Ephraim's son was Shuthelah. Shuthelah's son was Bered. Bered's son was Tahath. Tahath's son was Eleadah. Eleadah's son was Tahath. 21 Tahath's son was Zabad. Zabad's son was Shuthelah. Ezer and Elead went to Gath to steal cows and sheep and were killed by some men who grew up in that city. 22 Their father Ephraim cried for them many days, and his family came to comfort him. 23 Then he had sexual relations with his wife again. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son whom Ephraim named Beriah because of the trouble that had happened to his family. 24 Ephraim's daughter was Sheerah. She built Lower Beth Horon, Upper Beth Horon, and Uzzen Sheerah. 25 Rephah was Ephraim's son. Resheph was Rephah's son. Telah was Resheph's son. Tahan was Telah's son. 26 Ladan was Tahan's son. Ammihud was Ladan's son. Elishama was Ammihud's son. 27 Nun was Elishama's son, and Joshua was the son of Nun. 28 Ephraim's descendants lived in these lands and towns: Bethel and the villages near it, Naaran on the east, Gezer and the villages near it on the west, and Shechem and the villages near it. These villages went all the way to Ayyah and its villages. 29 Along the borders of Manasseh's land were the towns of Beth Shan, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, and the villages near them. The descendants 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 took dust from the ground and formed a man from it. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nose, and the man became a living person.
Genesis 6:17
I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all living things that live under the sky, including everything that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.

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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