Genesis 38:20

his friend. Genesis 20:9 Leviticus 19:17 Judges 14:20 2 Samuel 13:3 Luke 23:12

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- The Family of Judah 1. עדלם ‛ ǎdûllâm , ‘Adullam, “righteousness.” חירה chı̂yrâh Chirah, “nobility?” 2. שׁוּע shûa‛ , Shua‘,...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his (f) friend the Adullamite, to receive [his] pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not. (f) That h...
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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

20. And Judah sent the kid. He sends by the hand of a friend, that he may not reveal his ignominy to a stranger. This is also the reason why...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not. No JFB co...
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 Ju...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I wish the same answer could be made of many a place now.
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite ,.... Who went with him to Timnath, and was privy to all this wickedness, and kept t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive [his] pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not. Ver. 20. By...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

A kid from the flock A goodly price at which her chastity and honour were valued! Had the consideration been a thousand rams, and ten thousands of...
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 t...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, and he did not find her....
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 belo...
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

Tamar Lessons 1. Sinful hearts when they suffer from God’s hand are apt to vent it upon creatures. 2. Carnal relations grow quickly weary...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judah Becomes Guilty of Incest
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Judah sent the kid which he had promised to the supposed harlot by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman'...

²⁰ And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 38:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 38:20