3The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her. …
And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-17)Here is, I. The family of Jacob. His twelve sons are here named, that illustrious number so often celebrated almost throughout the whole Bible, from the first to the last book of it. At every turn we meet with the twelve tribes that descended from these twelve patriarchs. The personal character of several of them was none of the best (the first four were much blemished), and yet the covenant was e…
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