1 Chronicles 7:23

“And when he went in to his wife, etc.] 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 f61, in his family; a great calamity had befallen it.”

“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. Next: 1 Chronicles Chapter 8”

“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 Sa1 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 Ch1 9:4 of this book, we read that Jabez, or, sorrowful, had that name given to him, because his mother "bare him with sorrow." Sa2 23:5 1 Chronicles 7:24”