1 Chronicles 7:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because disaster had befallen his house.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Then his wife conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah [in evil], because calamity had befallen his house.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And he went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

Common English Bible

²³ Ephraim had sex with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. He named him Beriah, because misfortune had come to his house.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And he entered to his wife; she conceived and bore a son. And he called his name Beriah, because he rose up during a time of evil for his house.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ 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:

1 Chronicles 7:23 Cross References

2 Samuel 23:5

Is not my house like this with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. Will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?

1 Chronicles 7:22

And their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

1 Chronicles 7:24

His daughter was Sheerah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah.