“ And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan. ”
- 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...
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er. No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
Chezib means a lie, deceit. It was a little village. Joshua 15:44 ; Micah 1:14-15 .
And she conceived again, and bare a son ,.... As soon as she well could: and she called his name Onan ; the first son Judah gave the name to, but his wife named this, so called from grief or sorro...
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan. Ver. 4. She called. ] Shush named her two latter children; the one it is like by the licence, the other by the absence of her...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse. 1727
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...
Judah The character of Judah - I. FAITHLESSNESS TOWARDS GOD. 1. In his separation from his brethren ( Genesis 38:1 ). 2. In his marriage with an idolater ( Genesis 38:2 ). II. A STRONG...
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
A.M. 2267. B.C. 1737. Onan. Genesis 46:12 Numbers 26:19