创世记 38:10-11 CUNPSS

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 38:8-10

Genesis 38:8-10OnanThe sin of OnanI.IT WAS PROMPTED BY A LOW MOTIVE. It was as selfish as it was vile. Onan’s design was to preserve the whole inheritance for his own house. II. IT WAS AN ACT OF WILFUL DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD’S ORDINANCE. Ill deservings of others can be no excuse for our injustice, for our uncharitableness. That which Tamar required, Moses afterward, as from God, commanded--the succession of brothers into the barren bed. Some laws God spake to His Church long ere He wrote them:... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 38:11-30

Genesis 38:11-30TamarLessons1.Sinful hearts when they suffer from God’s hand are apt to vent it upon creatures. 2. Carnal relations grow quickly weary of showing kindness when their aims are crossed by God. 3. Hard fathers-in-law, for their own ends, spare not to lay the hardest terms upon allies. 4. Such oppressors deal subtilly, though cruelly; they pretend fair at least. 5. Wicked hearts are apt to be jealous, and transfer faults and ill successes to others that are innocent. 6. Sinful... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 38:10

Gen 38:10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also. Ver. 10. Wherefore he slew him. ] God oft punisheth the abuse of the marriage bed, either with untimely death - it was well said of one, a that Venus provides not for those that are already born, but for those that shall be born - or else with no children, misshapen children, idiots, or prodigiously wicked children, &c. Cavete let this consideration be as the angel standing with a drawn sword over... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 38:11

Gen 38:11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren [did]. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house. Ver. 11. Lest peradventure he die also, &c. ] Judah lays the fault all on her, whereas it was in his sons. Sarah, on the other side, blamed herself only for barrenness. Gen 16:2 "Judge not, that ye be not judged": but "if we judge ourselves, we shall not... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 38:10

displeased: Heb. was evil in the eyes of, Numbers 11:1, Numbers 22:34, 2 Samuel 11:27, 1 Chronicles 21:7, Proverbs 14:32, Proverbs 24:18, Jeremiah 44:4, Haggai 1:13 him also: Genesis 46:12, Numbers 26:19 Reciprocal: Genesis 48:17 - displeased him Isaiah 59:15 - displeased him Romans 5:13 - until read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 38:11

till Shelah: Ruth 1:11, Ruth 1:13 in her: Leviticus 22:13 Reciprocal: Genesis 38:5 - Shelah Genesis 38:14 - that Shelah Exodus 21:9 - betrothed her unto Numbers 26:20 - Shelah Ezekiel 16:38 - as women Matthew 1:3 - Thamar Matthew 22:24 - Moses Luke 20:28 - General read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 38:11

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.Shelah the third son was reserved for the widow, yet with design that he should not marry so young as his brothers had done, lest he die also. Some think that Judah never intended to marry Shelah to Tamar, but unjustly suspected her to have been the death of her two former... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:11

11. Lest… he die also Judah probably entertained some superstitious fear of Tamar, as if she were the cause of the death of his sons . Compare the story of Tobit . Genesis 3:7. But it was their wickedness, not hers, which caused their sudden death . read more