Matthew 1:3
Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah, and their mother was Tamar. Perez was the father of Hezron. Hezron was the father of Ram.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 38:11Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Return to your father’s house, but do not marry anyone else. When my youngest son Shelah grows up, he can marry you.” But Judah really did not want Shelah to marry her, because he was afraid that then Shelah would die too, just as his older brothers had died. So Tamar obeyed Judah and went back to live in her father’s house again.
Genesis 38:29But he pulled his hand back inside the womb, and his brother came out first. So she said, “So this is how you break your way out first!” So she named him Perez, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘breaking out.’
1 Chronicles 2:1The sons of Jacob were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
1 Chronicles 9:6Jeuel and others of his relatives in Zerah’s clan. There were 690 people in this clan.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 1:2-18
Matthew to John The one half of our undertaking upon the New Testament It may be proper to apprise the reader that the volume to which this preface was originally prefixed included the Acts of the Apostles, which in the present edition will commence the second volume, in order to secure a more equal division of the New Testament—the commentary on the remaining books being less extended than the author contemplated .—Ed . is now, by the assistance of divine grace, finished, and presented to the reader, who, it is… Read the whole commentary →