Genesis 38:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. ”

Genesis 38:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- 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 38:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise (c) up seed to thy brother. (c) This order was for the preservation of the stock, since the child begotten by the se...
Genesis 38:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 38:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8. Go in unto thy brother’s wife. Although no law had hitherto been prescribed concerning brother’s marriages, that the surviving brother should raise up seed to one who was dead; it is, neve...
Genesis 38:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
Genesis 38:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. Marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. The first instance of a custom which was...
Genesis 38:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 38:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Go in unto thy brother’s wife. — We learn from this that the law of the Levirate, by which the brother of the dead husband was required to marry the widow, was of far more ancient date than the l...
Genesis 38:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Genesis 38:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Judah said unto Onan ,.... Some time after his brother's death: go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her ; Moses here uses a word not common for marriage, but which was peculiar to the mar...
Genesis 38:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. Ver. 8. And Judah said unto Onan. ] At fourteen years of age likewise. For, from the birth...
Genesis 38:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Er was wicked in the sight of the Lord That is, in defiance of God, and his law. And the Lord slew him Cut him off by an untimely death, before he had any children by Tamar. As long life among th...
Genesis 38:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 38:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judah's Profligacy. B. C. 1717. 1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down...
Genesis 38:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This, as also divers other things, was now instituted and observed amongst God's people, and afterwards was expressed in a written law, Deuteronomy 25:5,6 . See also Numbers 36:6,7 Rth 1:11 Ma...
Genesis 38:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 38:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 38:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Genesis 38:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Genesis 38:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Genesis 38:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The story of Judah, Shuah, and Tamar
Genesis 38:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A.M. 2282. B.C. 1722. Leviticus 18:16 Numbers 36:8 Numbers 36:9 Deuteronomy 25:5-10 Ruth 1:11 Ruth 4:5-11 Matthew 22:23-27

Genesis 38:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 38:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Genesis 38:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 38:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 38:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 38:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 38:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 38:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 38:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 38:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 38:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 38:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 38:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 38:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 38:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 38:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 38:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 38:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 38:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 38:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 38:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 38:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge