No text from Poole on this verse.
- The Family of Judah 1. עדלם ‛ ǎdûllâm , ‘Adullam, “righteousness.” חירה chı̂yrâh Chirah, “nobility?” 2. שׁוּע shûa‛ , Shua‘,...
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...
And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.
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 Ju...
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...
See 1 Chronicles 2:3 ; Numbers 26:19-20 . Reader! observe here the general feature of last since the fall. See Genesis 6:4 ; Genesis 6:4 .
And she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Er. Which signifies a "watchman": but the reason of the name given by the Targum of Jonat...
And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er. Ver. 3. And she conceived, &c. ] St Jerome tells us of a certain drunken nurse...
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 t...
Judah's Profligacy. B. C. 1717. 1 And...
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...
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 belo...
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...
Judah The character of Judah - I. FAITHLESSNESS TOWARDS GOD. 1. In his separation from his brethren ( Genesis 38:1 ). 2. In his marriage...
EXPOSITION Genesis 38:1 And it came to pass . The present chapter appears to interrupt the continuity of the narrative of Joseph's history...
The story of Judah, Shuah, and Tamar
A.M. 2266. B.C. 1738. Er. Genesis 46:12 Numbers 26:19
3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.