Gênesis 38:6-10 NVT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 38:1-11

Here is, 1. Judah's foolish friendship with a Canaanite-man. He went down from his brethren, and withdrew for a time from their society and his father's family, and got to be intimately acquainted with one Hirah, an Adullamite, Gen. 38:1. It is computed that he was now not much above fifteen or sixteen years of age, an easy prey to the tempter. Note, When young people that have been well educated begin to change their company, they will soon change their manners, and lose their good education.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:6

And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn ,.... Chose one for him, and presented her to him for his liking, whom he approving of married: whose name was Tamar ; which signifies a "palm tree": the Targum of Jonathan says, she was the daughter of Shem; but it is altogether improbable that a daughter of his should be living at this time, and young enough to bear children: it is much more probable that she was daughter of Levi, Judah's brother, as an Arabic writer F15 Abulpharag.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:7

And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord ,.... That is, exceedingly wicked, as this phrase signifies, Genesis 13:13 , was guilty of some very heinous sin, but what is not mentioned; according to the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi, it was the same with his brother Onan's, Genesis 38:9 , which it is suggested he committed, lest his wife should prove with child, and lose her beauty; but if it had been the same with his, it would have been expressed as well as his. An... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:8

And Judah said unto Onan ,.... Some time after his brother's death: go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her ; Moses here uses a word not common for marriage, but which was peculiar to the marrying of a brother's wife according to a law given in his time: it appears to have been a custom before, and which the patriarch might be directed to by the Lord, in such a case when a brother died, and left no issue, for the sake of multiplication of seed, according to the divine promise, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:9

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 afterwards were reckoned the children of the real parent of them; this shows this was a custom in use in those times, and well known, and was not a peculiar case: and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife ; to cohabit with her, as man and wife, he having married her... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:10

And the thing which he did displeased the Lord ,.... Being done out of envy to his brother, and through want of affection to the memory of his name; and it may be out of covetousness to get his estate into his own hands, and especially as it frustrated the end of such an usage of marrying a brother's wife; which appears to be according to the will of God, since it afterwards became a known law of his; and it was the more displeasing, as it was not only a check upon the multiplication of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:7

Er - was wicked in the sight of the Lord - What this wickedness consisted in we are not told; but the phrase sight of the Lord being added, proves that it was some very great evil. It is worthy of remark that the Hebrew word used to express Er's wickedness is his own name, the letters reversed. Er ער wicked, רע ra . As if the inspired writer had said, "Er was altogether wicked, a completely abandoned character." read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:9

Onan knew that the seed should not be his - That is, that the child begotten of his brother's widow should be reckoned as the child of his deceased brother, and his name, though the real father of it, should not appear in the genealogical tables. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:10

Wherefore he slew him also - The sin of Onan has generally been supposed to be self-pollution; but this is certainly a mistake; his crime was his refusal to raise up seed to his brother, and rather than do it, by the act mentioned above, he rendered himself incapable of it. We find from this history that long be fore the Mosaic law it was an established custom, probably founded on a Divine precept, that if a man died childless his brother was to take his wife, and the children produced by... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:7

Verse 7 7.And the Lord slew him. We know that long life is reckoned among the gifts of God; and justly: for since it is by no means a despicable honor that we are created after the image of God, the longer any one lives in the world, and daily experiences God’s care over him, it is certain that he is the more bountifully dealt with by the Lord. Even amidst the many miseries with which life is filled, this divine goodness still shines forth, that God invites us to himself, and exercises us in... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 38:1-11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:7

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