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19And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
Genesis 38:19 —
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Matthew Henry
(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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