Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadTreasury Scriptural Knowledge Expanded - 1 Chronicles 7:23 - 7:23
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Beriah: that is, In evil
because: Many similar instances of the naming of children from passing circumstances, occur throughout the sacred volume. See those of a similar character with this verse: Gen 35:18, where Rachel, while dying, names her new-born son Ben-oni, or, the son of my sorrow. So in 1Sa 4:21, 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 1Ch 9:4, of this book, we read that Jabez, or, sorrowful, had that name given to him, because his mother "bare him with sorrow." 2Sa 23:5
Reciprocal: 1Ch 4:9 - I bare him