1 Chronicles 7:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And for a long time Ephraim their father went on weeping for them, and his brothers came to give him comfort.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 37:34 : 34 Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his son day after day.
  • Job 2:11 : 11 And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.

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  • 1 Chr 7:20-21
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    20 And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,

    21 And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath, who had been living in the land from their birth, put to death, because they came down to take away their cattle.

  • 1 Chr 7:23
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    23 After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family.

  • Gen 37:34-35
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    34 Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his son day after day.

    35 And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

  • Gen 50:10
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    10 And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.

  • Gen 48:1
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    1 Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim.

  • Jer 31:9
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    9 They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.

  • Zech 10:7
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    7 And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.

  • Jer 31:20
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    20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.

  • Job 2:13
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    13 And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

  • Gen 41:52
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    52 And to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said, God has given me fruit in the land of my sorrow.

  • 1 Chr 7:31
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    31 And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

  • 2 Sam 12:22
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    22 And he said, While the child was still living I went without food and gave myself up to weeping: for I said, Who is able to say that the Lord will not have mercy on me and give the child life?

  • Isa 7:17
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    17 The Lord is about to send on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, such a time of trouble as there has not been from the days of the separating of Ephraim from Judah; even the coming of the king of Assyria.

  • Jer 16:7
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    7 No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.

  • Gen 42:36
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    36 And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.

  • Num 26:37
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    37 These are the families of Ephraim as they were numbered, thirty-two thousand, five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families.

  • Hos 9:13
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    13 As I have seen a beast whose young have been taken from her, so Ephraim will give birth to children only for them to be put to death.

  • Num 26:28
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    28 The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

  • Hos 5:13
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    13 When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king; but he is not able to make you well or give you help for your wound.

  • 1 Chr 5:7
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    7 And his brothers by their families, when the list of their generations was made up: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,