창세기 38:21-24 KRV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 38:12-23

It is a very ill-favoured story that is here told concerning Judah; one would not have expected such folly in Israel. Judah had buried his wife; and widowers have need to stand upon their guard with the utmost caution and resolution against all fleshly lusts. He was unjust to his daughter-in-law, either through negligence or design, in not giving her his surviving son, and this exposed her to temptation. I. Tamar wickedly prostituted herself as a harlot to Judah, that, if the son might not,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 38:24-30

Here is, I. Judah's rigour against Tamar, when he heard she was an adulteress. She was, in the eye of the law, Shelah's wife, and therefore her being with child by another was looked upon as an injury and reproach to Judah's family: Bring her forth therefore, says Judah, the master of the family, and let her be burnt; not burnt to death, but burnt in the cheek or forehead, stigmatized for a harlot. This seems probable, Gen. 38:24. Note, it is a common thing for men to be severe against those... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:21

Then he asked the men of that place ,.... Or "of her place" F4 אנשי מקמה "viros loci ejus, scil mulieris", Piscator, Schimdt. , of the woman's place, supposing that she dwelt somewhere thereabout: saying, where is the harlot that was openly by the wayside ? that sat there very publicly some little time ago: the word for "harlot" F5 הקדשה comes from another, which signifies to sanctify or separate to holy uses; and harlots were so called, either by an antiphrasis, by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:22

And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her ,.... That is, the Adullamite returned to him, and informed him that he could not find the harlot to whom he was sent to deliver the kid and receive the pledge, after he had made the strictest inquiry for her he could: and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place ; by which it appears, that near the place where Tamar was, there was a town or city, and which was so free from such infamous persons, that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:23

And Judah said, let her take it to her ,.... The pledge, and make no further inquiry after her: lest we be shamed ; Judah for committing fornication, which even among Heathens, at least at that time of day, was reckoned a shameful action; and be laughed at also, for committing such a pledge to an whore, who had tricked him out of it; and his friend Hirah for conniving at the sin, and being employed on such an errand: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her : who could... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:24

And it came to pass about three months after ,.... The above affair happened, and when the pregnancy of Tamar began to be somewhat visible, as it does in women with child about that time: that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot : her being with child being observed by some of the family, or her neighbours, and knowing that she did not cohabit with Shelah, who, according to custom, ought to have been her husband, concluded that she had had a... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:21

Where is the harlot that was openly by the wayside? - Our translators often render different Hebrew words by the same term in English, and thus many important shades of meaning, which involve traits of character, are lost. In Genesis 38:15 , Tamar is called a harlot, זונה zonah , which, as we have already seen, signifies a person who prostitutes herself for money. In this verse she is called a harlot in our version; but the original is not זונה but קדשה kedeshah , a holy or... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:23

Lest we be shamed - Not of the act, for this he does not appear to have thought criminal; but lest he should fall under the raillery of his companions and neighbors, for having been tricked out of his signet, bracelets, and staff, by a prostitute. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:24

Bring her forth, and let her be burnt - As he had ordered Tamar to live as a widow in her own father's house till his son Shelah should be marriageable, he considers her therefore as the wife of his son; and as Shelah was not yet given to her, and she is found with child, she is reputed by him as an adulteress, and burning, it seems, was anciently the punishment of this crime. Judah, being a patriarch or head of a family, had, according to the custom of those times, the supreme magisterial... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:24

Verse 24 24.And it came to pass about three months after. Tamar might sooner have exposed the crime; but she waited till she should be demanded for capital punishment; for then she would have stronger ground for expostulation. The reason why Judah subjects his daughter-in-law to a punishment so severe, was, that he deemed her guilty of adultery: for what the Lord afterwards confirmed by his law, appears then to have prevailed by custom among men, that a maid, from the time of her espousals,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 38:12-23

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 38:24-30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 38:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:24

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:24

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