Genesis 38:12
And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. And Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
13And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goes up to Timnah to shear his sheep.
Cross References
Genesis 24:67And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Genesis 38:1And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
Joshua 15:35Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
Joshua 15:57Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
Judges 14:1And Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 25:36And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 38:2-12
Judah's Profligacy. ( b. c. 1717.) 1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her. 3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er. 4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan. 5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at… Read the whole commentary →