Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
Genesis Chapter 38
Overview
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.
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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 (Gen 33:1). We have accordingly adapted the chronology to correspond with that time.
turned: Gen 19:2, Gen 19:3; Jdg 4:18; Kg2 4:8; Pro 9:6, Pro 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, Jos 15:35; Sa1 22:1; Sa2 23:13; Mic 1:15
saw: Gen 3:6, Gen 6:2, Gen 24:3, Gen 34:2; Jdg 14:2, Jdg 16:1; Sa2 11:2; Co2 6:14
Shuah: Gen 46:12; Ch1 2:3, Shua
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Shelah: Gen 38:11, Gen 38:26, Gen 46:12; Num 26:20; Ch1 4:21
Chezib: Chezib is said, by Eusebius and Jerome, to have been situated near Adullam, and to be then uninhabited.
Tamar: Mat 1:3
wicked: Gen 6:8, Gen 13:13, Gen 19:13; Ch2 33:6
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he is, Deu 25:6; Rut 1:11, Rut 4:10
lest that: Job 5:2; Pro 27:4; Tit 3:3; Jam 3:14, Jam 3:16, Jam 4:5
displeased: Heb. was evil in the eyes of, Num 11:1, Num 22:34; Sa2 11:27; Ch1 21:7; Pro 14:32, Pro 24:18; Jer 44:4; Hag 1:13
him also: Gen 46:12; Num 26:19
till Shelah: Rut 1:11, Rut 1:13
in her: Lev 22:13
in process of time: Heb. the days were multiplied, comforted. Gen 24:67; Sa2 13:39, sheep shearers, Gen 31:19; Sa1 25:4-8, Sa1 25:36; Sa2 13:23-29
Timnath: Timnath is, in all probability, that in the border of Judah, between Jerusalem and Diospolis, given to Dan, and mentioned in the history of Samson as belonging to the Philistines. Gen 38:1; Jos 15:10, Jos 15:35, Jos 15:37, Timnah, Jos 19:43, Thimnathah, Jdg 14:1
and sat: Pro 7:12; Jer 3:2; Eze 16:25
an open place: Heb. the door of eyes, or of Enajim, Some think ainayim means "the two fountains," or "double fountain;" while others regard it as a proper name, and the same as Enaim, a city of Judah (Jos 15:34). So the LXX render it Enan.
that Shelah: Gen 38:11, Gen 38:26
Go to: Sa2 13:11
What wilt: Deu 23:18; Eze 16:33; Mat 26:15; Ti1 6:10
I will: Eze 16:33
a kid: Heb. a kid of the goats
Wilt thou: Gen 38:20, Gen 38:24, Gen 38:25; Pro 20:16; Luk 16:8
Thy signet: Chothem, or chothemeth, as in Gen 38:25, is properly a ring-seal, with which impressions were made to ascertain property, etc. From Jer 22:24, we find that it was worn on the hand; though it might also have been suspended from the neck by a ribband, as the Arabs still wear it. Gen 38:25, Gen 38:26; Jer 22:24; Luk 15:22
bracelets: Pathil, from pathal, to twist, wreathe, may denote either a wreath for the arm or neck, a twisted collar, or bracelet. In the former sense the LXX render it by ορμισκον, and Aquila and Symmachus by στρεπτον; and in the latter sense, the Vulgate renders it by armillam. It may have been a collar by which the signet was suspended; though its being used in the plural seems to favour the opinion of its being a bracelet.
gave it her: Gen 38:25, Gen 38:26; Hos 4:11
laid by her veil: Gen 38:14; Sa2 14:2, Sa2 14:5
his friend: Gen 20:9; Lev 19:17; Jdg 14:20; Sa2 13:3; Luk 23:12
openly by the way side: or, in Enajim, Gen 38:14
lest we: Sa2 12:9; Pro 6:33; Rom 6:21; Co2 4:2; Eph 5:12; Rev 16:15
be shamed: Heb. become a contempt
played the harlot: Gen 34:31; Jdg 19:2; Ecc 7:26; Jer 2:20, Jer 3:1, Jer 3:6, Jer 3:8; Eze 16:15, Eze 16:28, Eze 16:41; Eze 23:5, Eze 23:19, Eze 23:44; Hos 2:5, Hos 3:3, Hos 4:15
let her: Gen 20:3, Gen 20:7, Gen 20:9; Lev 20:10, Lev 21:9; Deu 22:21-27, Deu 24:16; Sa2 12:5, Sa2 12:7; Jer 29:22, Jer 29:23; Mat 7:1-5; Rom 2:1, Rom 2:2, Rom 14:22
Discern: Gen 38:18, Gen 37:32; Psa 50:21; Jer 2:26; Rom 2:16; Co1 4:5; Rev 20:12
acknowledged: Gen 37:33
She hath: Sa1 24:17; Sa2 24:17; Eze 16:52; Hab 1:13; Joh 8:9; Rom 3:19
more righteous: Not less to blame, but more righteous, because. Gen 38:14
And he knew: Gen 4:1; Sa2 16:22, Sa2 20:3; Job 4:5, Job 34:31, Job 34:32, Job 40:5; Mat 3:8; Rom 13:12; Tit 2:11, Tit 2:12; Pe1 4:2, Pe1 4:3
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How hast: etc. or, Wherefore hast thou made this breach against thee
his name: Gen 46:12; Num 26:20; Ch1 2:4, Ch1 9:4; Neh 11:4, Neh 11:6, Perez, Mat 1:3; Luk 3:33, Phares
Pharez: i.e. a breach.