1 Chronicles 7:23
Good News Translation
Then he had intercourse with his wife again, and she became pregnant and had a son. They named him Beriah, because of the trouble that had come to their family.

New Revised Standard Version
Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son; and he named him Beriah, because disaster had befallen his house.

Contemporary English Version
Some time later his wife gave birth to another son, and Ephraim named him Beriah, because he was born during a time of misery.

New American Bible
he had relations with his wife, who conceived and bore a son whom he named Beriah, since evil had befallen his house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he went in to his wife: and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beria, because he was born when it went evil with his house:

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And he went in to his wife: and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beria, because he was born when it went evil with his house:

Beriah that is, In evil

Genesis 35:18 And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at hand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right hand.

, where Rachel, while dying, names her new-born son Ben-oni, or, the son of my sorrow. So in

1 Samuel 4:21 And she called the child Ichabod, saying: The glory is gone from Israel, because the ark of God was taken, and for her father in law, and for her husband:

, the wife of Phinehas, on being apprised of the death of Eli and her husband, and that the ark was taken by the Philistines, while in the pains of travail, and dying, named her son I-chabod, or, there is no glory. So also in the

4th chapter of this book, ver.

1 Samuel 4:9 Take courage, and behave like men, ye Philistines: lest you come to be servants to the Hebrews, as they have served you: take courage and fight.

, we read that Jabez, or, sorrowful, had that name given to him, because his mother `bare him with sorrow.'

2 Samuel 23:5 Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all my salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that springeth not up.

Context
The Descendants of Ephraim
22And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him. 23And he went in to his wife: and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beria, because he was born when it went evil with his house:24And his daughter was Sara, who built Bethoron, the nether and the upper, and Ozensara.…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 7:22
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

1 Chronicles 7:24
And his daughter was Sara, who built Bethoron, the nether and the upper, and Ozensara.

1 Chronicles 7:22
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