17And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.
They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. …
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 temp…
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