Genesis 38:12 - Exposition

And in process of time — literally, and the days were multiplied (cf. Genesis 4:3 ), which is rendered by the same words in the A . V .— the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted (or, comforted himself, ceased to mourn), and went up unto his sheep-shearers (vide Genesis 31:19 ) to Timnath ,—a border town between Ekron and Bethshemesh ( Joshua 15:10 ) in the plain of Judah (Kalisch, Wordsworth, W . L . Alexander in Kitto's 'Cyclopedia'); but more probably here a town ( Joshua 15:57 ) in the mountains of Judah (Robinson, 2.343, Keil, Alford, 'Speaker's Commentary')— he and his friend —ὁ ποιμὴν αὐτοῦ ( LXX .)— Hirah the Adullamite .