Gen. 38:1

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Gen 38:1 Judah begets Er, Onan, and Shelah.

Gen 38:6 Er's marriage with Tamar, and death.

Gen 38:8 The trespass of Onan.

Gen 38:11 Tamar is reserved for Shelah.

Gen 38:12 Judah's wife dies.

Gen 38:13 Tamar deceives Judah.

Gen 38:27 She bears twins, Pharez and Zarah.

A.M. 2265. B.C. 1739.

it came.As there cannot be above 23 years from the selling of Joseph, unto Israel's going down into Egypt; and as it is impossible that Judah should take a wife, and by her have three sons successively, and Shelah, the youngest, marriageable when Judah begat Pharez of Tamar, and Pharez be grown up, married, and have two sons, all within so short a period; Mr. Ainsworth conceives that the time here spoken of is soon after Jacob's coming to Shechem, (ch. 33.) We have accordingly adapted the chronology to correspond with that time.

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Gen 19:2; Gen 19:3; Judg 4:18; 2Kgs 4:8; Prov 9:6; Prov 13:20

Adullamite.An inhabitant of Adullam, a city of Canaan, afterwards given to Judah, situated in the southern part of that tribe, west of Hebron.

Josh 12:15; Josh 15:35; 1Sam 22:1; 2Sam 23:13; Mic 1:15