Genesis 38:1

World English Bible (2000)

It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

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  • 1 Sam 22:1 : 1 David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
  • 2 Sam 23:13 : 13 Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
  • 2 Kgs 4:8 : 8 It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. 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 One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
  • Mic 1:15 : 15 I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah. He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
  • Judg 4:18 : 18 Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, "Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don't be afraid." He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
  • Gen 19:2-3 : 2 and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night." 3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into 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 Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."

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  • Gen 38:2-3
    2 verses
    85%

    2 Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

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

  • Gen 38:11-16
    6 verses
    78%

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

    12 After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

    13 It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

    14 She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.

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

    16 He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that 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%

    19 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

    20 Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.

    21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."

    22 He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"

    23 Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven't found her."

    24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."

  • Gen 38:5-8
    4 verses
    73%

    5 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.

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

    7 Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.

    8 Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."

  • 1 Chr 2:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua's daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh; and he killed him.

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

  • Matt 1:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

    3 Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.

  • Gen 38:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26 Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.

    27 It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.

  • Judg 1:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 Afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.

    10 Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba); and they struck Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
    70%

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

  • Gen 44:14
    70%

    14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.

  • Luke 3:33
    69%

    33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

  • Gen 24:38
    68%

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

  • Judg 1:16
    68%

    16 The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

  • Gen 46:28
    68%

    28 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.