John Gill's Exposition on 1 Chronicles 7:23

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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.

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