Genesis 38:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

At that time, Judah left his brothers and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

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  • 1 Sam 22:1 : 1 David therefore departed from there, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
  • 2 Sam 23:13 : 13 And three of the thirty chief men went down and came to David in the harvest time into the cave of Adullam while the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
  • 2 Kgs 4:8 : 8 And it happened one day, that Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
  • Josh 15:35 : 35 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
  • Prov 13:20 : 20 He who walks with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
  • Mic 1:15 : 15 Yet I will bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah: the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.
  • Judg 4:18 : 18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; do not fear. And when he had turned in to her into the tent, she covered him with a blanket.
  • Gen 19:2-3 : 2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and spend the night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise early and go on your way. And they said, No; but we will stay in the street all night. 3 But he pressed upon them greatly, so they turned to him and entered his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
  • Josh 12:15 : 15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
  • Prov 9:6 : 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

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  • Gen 38:2-3
    2 verses
    85%

    2There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; he took her and went in to her.

    3She conceived and bore a son, and he named him Er.

  • Gen 38:11-16
    6 verses
    78%

    11Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, Stay a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up; for he thought, Lest he also die like his brothers. So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

    12After some time, Shuah's daughter, Judah's wife, died; after being comforted, Judah went up to his sheepshearers at Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

    13Tamar was told, Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

    14So she took off her widow’s garments, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself, and sat by the roadside in an open place, which is on the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.

    15When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, because she had covered her face.

    16He turned to her by the roadside and said, Let me come in to you; for he did not know she was his daughter-in-law. She said, What will you give me, that you may come in to me?

  • Gen 38:19-24
    6 verses
    76%

    19Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil, she put on her widow’s garments again.

    20Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he could not find her.

    21He asked the men of the place, Where is the prostitute who was by the roadside? They said, There has been no prostitute here.

    22So he returned to Judah and said, I could not find her; and the men of the place said there has been no prostitute there.

    23Judah said, Let her keep them, lest we become a laughingstock; after all, I sent the young goat, and you did not find her.

    24About three months later, it was told Judah, Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; moreover, she is pregnant by harlotry. Judah said, Bring her out, and let her be burned.

  • Gen 38:5-8
    4 verses
    73%

    5Yet again she conceived and bore a son, and named him Shelah; and he was at Chezib when she bore him.

    6Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.

    7But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.

    8Then Judah said to Onan, Go to your brother’s wife, marry her, and raise offspring for your brother.

  • 1 Chr 2:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by the daughter of Shua, the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD, and He put him to death.

    4And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bore him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

  • Matt 1:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judah and his brothers;

    3And Judah begat Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and Perez begat Hezron; and Hezron begat Aram;

  • Gen 38:26-27
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    71%

    26Judah acknowledged them and said, She has been more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he never knew her again.

    27When the time came for her to give birth, behold, there were twins in her womb.

  • Judg 1:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.

    10And Judah went against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron, (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba) and they killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
    70%

    1David therefore departed from there, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

  • Gen 44:14
    70%

    14And Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house; for he was still there: and they fell before him on the ground.

  • Luke 3:33
    69%

    33The son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

  • Gen 24:38
    68%

    38but you shall go to my father's house and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.'

  • Judg 1:16
    68%

    16And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up out of the City of Palms with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

  • Gen 46:28
    68%

    28And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to direct him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.