Genesis 38:1

1 Judah begets Er, Onan, and Shelah.

6 Er's marriage with Tamar, and death.

8 The trespass of Onan.

11 Tamar is reserved for Shelah.

12 Judah's wife dies.

13 Tamar deceives Judah.

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.

turned.

19:2,3; Jud 4:18; 2Ki 4:8; Pr 9:6; 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.

Jos 12:15; 15:35; 1Sa 22:1; 2Sa 23:13; Mic 1:15
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