Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 7:23

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

23. Beriah, because it went evil ] Heb. Beriah because it went beraah, a play on the sound of the name. Cp. Gen 30:11.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

And when he went in to his wife,…. After his grief and sorrow in part at least had subsided:

she conceived and bare a son; which in some measure made up for the loss he had sustained:

and he called his name Beriah; which signifies being “in evil” or calamity, he being born in an evil time:

because it went evil with his house; or evil was in his house, as Noldius m, in his family; a great calamity had befallen it.

m Ebr. Concord. Part. No. 750. p. 165.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(23) Because it went evil.Beriah is derived from a root, bara, and apparently means gift. Heb., because in evil it (i.e., the birth of Beriah) happened in his house. There is an allusive play on the words Beriah (gift) and beraah (in evil) such as we often meet with in Genesis (see Gen. 5:29; Gen. 11:9). To call such plays on words derivations would be a tasteless anachronism. Their purpose is to point a moral, not to teach etymology.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

1Ch 7:23 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.

Ver. 23. And when he went in to his wife. ] A modest expression of the marriage duty. The apostle forbiddeth filthy speaking; Eph 4:25 ; Eph 4:29 ; Eph 5:4 so doth Cicero, in his “Offices,” inveighing against the Cynics for their obscene language.

She conceived, and bare a son. ] Of whom came a large offspring. This was a great mercy to the good old man.

And he called his name Beriah. ] a That is, In affliction. Hereby he would immind himself and his posterity of the evil which had befallen his house, that they might hear, and fear, and do no more so. b

a A malo et ululatu. – Lavat.

b Optimum est aliena frui insania.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

he = Ephraim. Born 1712. Compare Gen 41:50.

Beriah. An ancestor of Joshua. Not to be confounded with Beriah of Benjamin (1Ch 8:13), who made a reprisal on Gath; or with Beriah of Asher (1Ch 7:30).

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

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

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1Ch 7:23. She conceived and bare a son Thus the breach was in some measure repaired, by the addition of another son in his old age. When God thus restores comfort to his mourners, he makes glad according to the days wherein he afflicted: setting the mercies over against the crosses, we ought to observe the kindness of his providence. Yet the joy that a man was born into his family could not make him forget his grief. For he gives a melancholy name to his son, Beriah, that is, in trouble: for he was born when the family was in mourning. It is good to have in remembrance the affliction and the misery which are past, that our souls may be humbled within us.

Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments