1 Chronicles 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.
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Gill's Exposition
And Heber,.... The other grandson of Asher; and son of Beriah:
begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shuah their sister; a place on the borders of Ephraim is called the coast of Japhleti; but…
We have here an account,
I. Of the tribe of Ephraim. Great things we read of that tribe when it came to maturity. Here we have an account of the disasters of its infancy, while it was in Egypt as it…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Beriah, because it went evil Heb. Beriah because it went beraah, a play on the sound of the name. Cp. Gen 30:11.