Verse 1
1. At that time During the time that Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojournings . Genesis 37:1. It does not say after these things, as in Genesis 22:1; so that the exact point of time is altogether indefinite.
Judah went down from his brethren Went southward from Shechem, perhaps on some errand to his grandfather Isaac, and before Jacob had removed from Shechem.
Adullamite A native of Adullam, a city in the plain some distance north-west of Hebron, which is mentioned in Joshua 15:35, among the cities of Judah, and situated between Jarmuth and Socoh. Its site has not been ascertained, but Eusebius and Jerome mention it as lying to the east of Eleutheropolis. On the cave of Adullam, famous in David’s history, see 1 Samuel 20:1. Turned in to Not “pitched his tent up to,” or in the neighbourhood of, ( Keil,) but, as the word is used in Genesis 38:16, and often elsewhere, in the sense of turning aside unto. What inclined him thus to turn in we are not told. It appears that once upon a time Judah, in passing down to Hebron, for some reason, accepted the hospitality of this Adullamite, and saw there a woman who so excited his love for her that he at once took her in marriage.
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