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- The Family of Judah
1. עדלם _‛__ǎdûllâm_, ‘Adullam, “righteousness.”
חירה _chı̂yrâh_ Chirah, “nobility?”
2. שׁוּע _shûa‛_, Shua‘, “luck, riches, cry.”
3. ער _‛__êr_, ‘Er, “watching.”...
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CHAPTER 38 JUDAH AND TAMAR
_ 1. Judah's marriage to the Canaanitish woman (Genesis 38:1)_
2. His sons: Er, Onan and Shelah (Genesis 38:3)
3. Tamar married to Er and Onan (Genesis 38:6)
4. Tamar wa...
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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, nor...
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PART FORTY-FIVE
THE INCIDENT OF JUDAH AND TAMAR
(Genesis 38:1-30)
_The Biblical Account._
1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his
brethren, and turned in to a certain Adul...
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_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 JFB c...
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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 the sa...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 38
JUDAH AND TAMAR
V1 At that time, Judah left his brothers. He stayed with a member of
the *tribe of Adullam, whose name was Hirah. V2 There Jud...
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וַ יֵּ֣דַע אֹונָ֔ן כִּ֛י לֹּ֥א לֹ֖ו
יִהְיֶ֣ה
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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, placi...
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JUDAH'S ADULTERY WITH TAMAR
Perhaps out of disgust for his brothers' thoughts of killing Joseph
and deceiving Jacob, Judah went to a city about twelve miles outside
Bethlehem. He married a Canaanite w...
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Reader! pause over this history. Who shall take upon him to say, to
what extent this unnatural sin hath been prevalent in all ages! Though
hidden from human observation, with what malignity must the v...
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Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the
remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the
Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 37 THROUGH 41.
What follows from chapter 37 is the interesting history of Joseph, to
which even children ever yield a ready ear, although ignorant of all
the...
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AND ONAN KNEW THAT THE SEED SHOULD NOT BE HIS,.... Should not be
called a son of his, but a son of his brother Er; this is to be
understood only of the firstborn; all the rest of the children born
aft...
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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.
Ver. 9....
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1 Iudah begetteth Er, Onan, and Shelah.
6 Er marrieth Tamar.
8 The trespasse of Onan.
11 Tamar stayeth for Shelah.
13 She deceiueth Iudah.
27 She beareth twinnes, Pharez and Zarah.
1 AND it came...
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And Onan knew that the seed should not be his, that a possible
first-born son would not perpetuate his name and family, but that of
his brother Er; AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE WENT IN UNTO HIS
BROTHE...
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THE STORY OF JUDAH, SHUAH, AND TAMAR...
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SECOND SECTION
_Judah’s temporary separation (probably in sadness on account of the
deed). His sons. Thamar._
GENESIS 38:1-30
1And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down, from his
brethr...
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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
e...
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Two things are here noted:
1. The sin itself, which is here particularly described by the Holy
Ghost, that men might be instructed concerning the nature and the
great evil of this sin of self-pollutio...
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Presents one of those remarkable circumstances in which divine grace
is seen gloriously triumphing over man's sin. "It is evident that our
Lord sprang out of Juda." (Hebrews 7:14) But how? "Judas bega...
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Genesis 38:9 Onan H209 knew H3045 (H8799) heir H2233 when H518 in H935
(H8802) brothers H251 wife...
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JUDAH FALLS FURTHER INTO SIN (GENESIS 38:1).
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 (and Jac...
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CONTENTS: Shame of Judah and his sons.
CHARACTERS: Judah, Hirah, Er, Onen, Tamar.
CONCLUSION: The sins which dishonor and defile the body are evidences
of vile affection and are very displeasing to...
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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 quot...
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_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 DISOBE...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 38:9 ONAN KNEW THAT THE OFFSPRING WOULD NOT
BE HIS. While publicly Onan appears to fulfill his father’s request,
in private he refuses to father a child on behalf of Er. he wou...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 38:1 The shocking account of Judah’s
relationship with Tamar, which interrupts the story of Joseph in
Egypt, fulfills an important role in Genesis 1:1 by providing a record
of...
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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 12:15; Jo...
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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 name Jehovah...
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For the correlating audio message go to Chapter 37
Now it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his
brothers, and he turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was
Hirah. And Judah s...
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he is. Deuteronomy 25:6 Ruth 1:11 Ruth 4:10 lest that. Job 5:2
Proverbs 27:4...