Genesis 38:12

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Josh 15:10 : 10 and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;
  • Judg 14:1 : 1 Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
  • 2 Sam 13:39 : 39 [the soul of] king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.
  • Gen 31:19 : 19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.
  • Gen 38:1 : 1 It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
  • 1 Sam 25:4-8 : 4 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. 5 David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name. 6 You shall tell him, 'Long life to you! Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have. 7 Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there anything missing to them, all the while they were in Carmel. 8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore, let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.'"
  • 1 Sam 25:36 : 36 Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
  • 2 Sam 13:23-29 : 23 It happened after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons. 24 Absalom came to the king, and said, "See now, your servant has sheepshearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant." 25 The king said to Absalom, "No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you." He pressed him; however he would not go, but blessed him. 26 Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us." The king said to him, "Why should he go with you?" 27 But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him. 28 Absalom commanded his servants, saying, "Mark now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Don't be afraid. Haven't I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!" 29 The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man got up on his mule, and fled.
  • Josh 15:35 : 35 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
  • Josh 15:37 : 37 Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad,
  • Josh 15:57 : 57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
  • Josh 19:43 : 43 Elon, Timnah, Ekron,

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  • Gen 38:13-16
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    84%

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

    14She 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.

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

    16He 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 38:11
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    11Then 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.

  • Gen 38:1-2
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    1It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

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

  • Gen 38:19-27
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    19She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

    20Judah 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.

    21Then 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."

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

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

    24It 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."

    25When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these--the signet, and the cords, and the staff."

    26Judah 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.

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

  • Gen 38:5-6
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    72%

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

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

  • 1 Chr 2:3-4
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    68%

    3The 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.

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

  • Judg 11:37-38
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    37She said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions."

    38He said, "Go." He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

  • 2 Sam 11:26
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    26When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.

  • Gen 38:8
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    8Judah 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."

  • Gen 46:12
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    12The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

  • 1 Sam 4:19
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    19His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered. When she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; for her pains came on her.

  • Ruth 4:12
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    12Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman."

  • Judg 19:2
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    2His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.