Genesis 38:1

About that tyme Iudas went downe from his brethren, and gate him to a man called Hirah of Adulam.

Bible (Bishops')

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2And there he saw ye daughter of a man called Sua, a Chanaanite: and he toke her, and went in to her.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:2And he sayde: Oh my Lordes, turne in I praye you, into your seruauntes house, and tary all nyght, and washe your feete, and ye shall ryse vp early to go in your wayes. Whiche sayde, nay: but we wyll byde in the streates all nyght.

Proverbs 13:20He that goeth in the companie of wise men, shalbe wise: but who so is a companion of fooles, shalbe afflicted.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 38:1

This chapter gives us an account of Judah and his family, and such an account it is that one would wonder that, of all Jacob's sons, our Lord should spring out of Judah, Heb. vii. 14 . If we were to form a character of him by this story, we should not say, "Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise," ch. xlix. 8 . But God will show that his choice is of grace and not of merit, and that Christ came into the world to save sinners, even the chief, and is not ashamed, upon their repentance, to be allied to… Read the whole commentary →

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