Genesis 38:12
After a long time, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
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13Tamar was told, “Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
Cross References
Genesis 24:67Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Genesis 38:1It came about at that time that Judah left his brothers and stayed with a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
Joshua 15:35Jarmuth, Adullam, Sokoh, Azekah,
Joshua 15:57Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah. These were ten cities, including their villages.
Judges 14:1Samson went down to Timnah, and there he saw a woman, one of the daughters of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 25:36Abigail went back to Nabal; behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing at all 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 →