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Selected Verse: Genesis 38:24 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| Ge 38:24 |
Strong Concordance |
And it came to pass about three [07969] months [02320] after, that it was told [05046] Judah [03063], saying [0559], Tamar [08559] thy daughter in law [03618] hath played the harlot [02181]; and also, behold, she is with child [02030] by whoredom [02183]. And Judah [03063] said [0559], Bring her forth [03318], and let her be burnt [08313]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Bring her forth, and let her be burnt--In patriarchal times fathers seem to have possessed the power of life and death over the members of their families. The crime of adultery was anciently punished in many places by burning (Lev 21:9; Jdg 15:6; Jer 29:22). This chapter contains details, which probably would never have obtained a place in the inspired record, had it not been to exhibit the full links of the chain that connects the genealogy of the Saviour with Abraham; and in the disreputable character of the ancestry who figure in this passage, we have a remarkable proof that "He made himself of no reputation" [Phi 2:7]. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Bring her forth, and let her be burnt - As he had ordered Tamar to live as a widow in her own father's house till his son Shelah should be marriageable, he considers her therefore as the wife of his son; and as Shelah was not yet given to her, and she is found with child, she is reputed by him as an adulteress, and burning, it seems, was anciently the punishment of this crime. Judah, being a patriarch or head of a family, had, according to the custom of those times, the supreme magisterial authority over all the branches of his own family; therefore he only acts here in his juridical capacity. How strange that in the very place where adultery was punished by the most violent death, prostitution for money and for religious purposes should be considered as no crime! |
7 But [235] made [2758] himself [1438] of no reputation [2758], and took upon him [2983] the form [3444] of a servant [1401], and was made [1096] in [1722] the likeness [3667] of men [444]:
22 And of them shall be taken up [03947] a curse [07045] by all the captivity [01546] of Judah [03063] which are in Babylon [0894], saying [0559], The LORD [03068] make [07760] thee like Zedekiah [06667] and like Ahab [0256], whom the king [04428] of Babylon [0894] roasted [07033] in the fire [0784];
6 Then the Philistines [06430] said [0559], Who hath done [06213] this? And they answered [0559], Samson [08123], the son in law [02860] of the Timnite [08554], because he had taken [03947] his wife [0802], and given [05414] her to his companion [04828]. And the Philistines [06430] came up [05927], and burnt [08313] her and her father [01] with fire [0784].
9 And the daughter [01323] of any [0376] priest [03548], if she profane [02490] herself by playing the whore [02181], she profaneth [02490] her father [01]: she shall be burnt [08313] with fire [0784].