1 Chronik 7:22

Lutherbibel

Und ihr Vater Ephraim trug lange Zeit Leid, und seine Brüder kamen, ihn zu trösten.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und Ephraim, ihr Vater, trauerte lange Zeit, und es kamen seine Brüder, ihn zu trösten.

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

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.