Genesis 38:25-30 NIV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:29

How hast thou broken forth? - פרצת מה mah paratsta , this breach be upon thee, פרץ עליך aleycka parets ; thou shalt bear the name of the breach thou hast made, i. e., in coming first into the world. Therefore his name was called פרץ Parets , i. e., the person who made the breach. The breach here mentioned refers to a certain circumstance in parturition which it is unnecessary to explain. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:30

His name was called Zarah - זרה Zarach , risen or sprung up, applied to the sun, rising and diffusing his light. "He had this name," says Ainsworth, "because he should have risen, i. e., have been born first, but for the breach which his brother made." There are several subjects in this chapter on which it may not be unprofitable to spend a few additional moments. 1. The insertion of this chapter is a farther proof of the impartiality of the sacred writer. The facts detailed,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:26

Verse 26 26.And Judah acknowledged them. The open reproach of Tamar proceeded from the desire of revenge. She does not seek an interview with her father-in-law, for the purpose of appeasing his mind; but, with a deliberate contempt of death, she demands him as the companion of her doom. That Judah immediately acknowledges his fault, is a proof of his honesty; for we see with how many fallacies nearly all are wont to cover their sins, until they are dragged to the light, and all means of denying... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:27

Verse 27 27.Behold twins were in her womb. Although both Judah obtained pardon for his error, and Tamar for her wicked contrivance; yet the Lord, in order to humble them, caused a prodigy to take place in the birth. Something similar had before happened in the case of Jacob and Esau, but for a different reason: as we know that prodigies sometimes portend good, sometimes evil. Here, however, there is no doubt that the twins, in their very birth, bring with them marks of their parents’ infamy.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:1-30

The house of Judah: a family record of sin and shame. I. THE WICKEDNESS OF ER AND ONAN . 1. Early . On any hypothesis Er and Onan can have been little more than boys when they were married, and yet they appear to have arrived at a remarkable precocity in sin. Nor was it simply that they had shed the innocence and purity of youth, but they had also acquired a shameful proficiency in vice. Young scholars are mostly apt learners, especially in the devil's school. 2.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:1-30

The goodness and severity of God. These occurrences in the family of Judah would seem Judah is a wanderer from his brethren; a sensual, self-willed, degenerate man; yet it is in the line of this same wanderer that the promised seed shall appear. The whole is a lesson on the evil of separation from the people of God . Luther asks why such things were placed in Scripture, and answers, read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:12-26

Judah's sin with Tamar. I. COMMITTED . 1. Suddenly . It was occasioned by the sight of a supposed courtesan. Much evil enters by the eye (cf. 2 Samuel 11:2 ). Great need for the prayer of David ( Psalms 119:37 ). 2. Openly . Judah was in the company of Hirah, his friend, when he beheld Tamar sitting in the gate of Enajim, and, without attempting to hide it from his friend, went to seek her society. Shamelessness in sin betokens great depravity. 3. Willfully . ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:25

When she was brought forth (literally, she was brought forth, and ) , she sent to her father-in-law (who apparently had not the heart to witness the execution of his own sentence), saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets (or chain), and staff. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:26

And Judah acknowledged (or discerned, ut supra, i.e. recognized) them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I ;—though Tamer was far from innocent (vide vex. 16), she was by no means as culpable as Judah— because that ( כִּי־עַל־כֵּן , for, for this cause, i.e. that so it might hap, pen to me: vide Genesis 18:5 ) I gave her not to Shelah my son. And (in token of his penitence) he knew her again no more. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:27

And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. Cf. the case of Rebekah ( Genesis 25:24 ). read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:29

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:30

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:26

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:27

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:1-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:1-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:12-26

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:25

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:26

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:27

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