John Gill Commentary 1 Chronicles 7:23

"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." — 1 Chronicles 7:23 (ASV)

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

she conceived and bore 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 ^F13 , in his family; a great calamity had befallen it.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F13: Ebr. Concord. Part. No. 750. p. 165.