4And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep. …
And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites. …
And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.
Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
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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