“ And the thing which he did displeaseda the LORD: wherefore he slew him also. ”
- The Family of Judah 1. עדלם ‛ ǎdûllâm , ‘Adullam, “righteousness.” חירה chı̂yrâh Chirah, “nobility?” 2. שׁוּע shûa‛ , Shua‘, “luck, riches, cry.” 3. ער ‛ êr , ‘Er, “wa...
Genesis 38. Judah and Tamar. The source is J, but not the same stratum as that to which the Joseph story belongs. There is not room for the events either before or after the events of Genesis 37, n...
10. And the thing which he did displeased the LORD. Less neatly the Jews speak about this matter. I will contend myself with briefly mentioning this, as far as the sense of shame allows to di...
And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also. Wherefore he slew him also - The sin of Onan has generally been supposed to be self-pollution; but this is certainly a mist...
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. No...
The History of Judah The sins recorded in this chapter testify eloquently to the great need the world had of the Greatest of the descendants of Judah, who came to teach the virtue of purity and th...
The sad and tragic story of Judah's corruption recorded here needs very little comment. It carries its own lessons of the frailty of human nature and of the far-reaching effects of sin. However, pla...
Timnath, a place remarkable for intrigue. See Judges 14:1-2 .
And the thing which he did displeased the Lord ,.... Being done out of envy to his brother, and through want of affection to the memory of his name; and it may be out of covetousness to get his esta...
And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also. Ver. 10. Wherefore he slew him. ] God oft punisheth the abuse of the marriage bed, either with untimely death - it was...
The story of Joseph is interrupted in this chapter to expose the shamefulness of an important part of Judah's history. We have seen that Judah took the lead in selling Joseph as a slave. In fact, in...
Judah's Profligacy. B. C. 1717. 1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down...
Displeased the Lord; an expression noting a more than ordinary offence against God, as 2 Samuel 11:27 . This just but dreadful severity of God is noted both for the terror of such-like transgres...
Judah Falls Further Into Sin ( Genesis 38:1-30 ). The compiler's purpose in the insertion of this separate account of Judah's private life here is to demonstrate that Judah, having betrayed Joseph...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 38:1 . Turned in.] (Heb.) “And he pitched,” i.e., his tent. He came to dwell in the near neighbourhood of a man belonging to the small kingdom of Adullam ( Joshua 12:...
Genesis 38:1 . At that time. All the events of this chapter could not happen in the twenty-two years from the selling of Joseph, to Israel's going down into Egypt; but according to Eben Ezra, as q...
Onan The sin of Onan I. IT WAS PROMPTED BY A LOW MOTIVE. It was as selfish as it was vile. Onan’s design was to preserve the whole inheritance for his own house. II. IT WAS AN ACT OF WILFUL...
EXPOSITION Genesis 38:1 And it came to pass . The present chapter appears to interrupt the continuity of the narrative of Joseph's history. Partly on this account, and partly because the n...
The story of Judah, Shuah, and Tamar
displeased. Heb. was evil in the eyes of. Numbers 11:1 Numbers 22:34 2 Samuel 11:27 1 Chronicles 21:7 Proverbs 14:32 Proverbs 24:18 Jeremiah 44:4 Haggai 1:13 him also. Genesis 46:12...