am 2268, bc 1736
Chezib: Chezib is said, by Eusebius and Jerome, to have been situated near Adullam, and to be then uninhabited.
Bible Commentary
Genesis 38:5
Genesis 38:5
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain
Recommended reading
More for Genesis 38:5
Continue with other commentaries and DiscipleDeck content connected to this verse, chapter, or topic.
Other commentaries
Genesis 38 — OverviewGenesis 38 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter gives us an account of Judah and his family, and such an
account it is that one would wonder that, of all Jacob's sons, our Lord
should spring out of Judah, Heb. vii. 14. If we were to form a…Genesis 38 — OverviewGenesis 38 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeGenesis 38:1, Judah begets Er, Onan, and Shelah; Genesis 38:6, Er’s marriage with Tamar, and death; Genesis 38:8, The trespass of Onan; Genesis 38:11, Tamar is reserved for Shelah; Genesis 38:12, Judah’s wife dies;…Genesis 38 — OverviewGenesis 38 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter is wholly taken up with matters relating to Judah, the fourth son of Jacob, from whom the Jews have their name, and from whom Christ sprung: it treats of his marriage with a Canaanitess, his children by…Genesis 38:1-11Genesis 38:1-11 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleHere is, 1. Judah's foolish friendship with a Canaanite-man. He went
down from his brethren, and withdrew for a time from their society and
his father's family, and got to be intimately acquainted with one…Genesis 38:5Genesis 38:5 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd she conceived, and bare a son,.... A third son:and called his name Shelah; which signifies tranquil, quiet, peaceable and prosperous, and is a word that comes from the same root as Shiloh, that famous son of Judah…