Genesis 38:26
So Judah examined them and said—More righteous than I! forasmuch, as I had not given her to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
27And, it came to pass at the time of her travail, that lo! twins, were in her womb.
Cross References
Genesis 4:1Now, the man, having come to know Eve his wife,—she conceived and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a Man, even Yahweh!
Genesis 38:14So she put off from her the garments of her widowhood and covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself up, and sat down in the entrance of, Enaim, which is by the way towards Timnah,—for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she, had not been given him to wife.
1 Samuel 24:18Thou, then, hast told to-day, how thou hast dealt with me, for good,—how, when Yahweh had surrendered me into thy hand, thou didst not slay me.
2 Samuel 20:3And David entered into his own house, in Jerusalem, and the king took the ten women, the concubines whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and sustained them, but, unto them, went he not in,—so they were shut up until the day of their death, in lifelong widowhood.
Job 4:5But, now, it cometh upon thee, and thou despairest, It smiteth even thee, and thou art dismayed.
Job 34:32What I see not, do, thou, shew me, If, perverseness, I have wrought, I will do it no more?
Matthew Henry on Genesis 38:25-30
Birth of Phares and Zarah. ( b. c. 1714.) 24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. 25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff. 26 And Judah acknowledged them, and… Read the whole commentary →