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1 Chronicles 2:4
4And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Pherez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
1 Chronicles 2:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
- New International Version (NIV)Judah’s daughter-in-law Tamar bore Perez and Zerah to Judah. He had five sons in all.
- English Standard Version (ESV)His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
Context of 1 Chronicles 2:4
2Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 3The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah: [which] three were born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah; and he slew him. And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Pherez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five. 5The sons of Pherez: Hezron and Hamul. 6And the sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
Read all of 1 Chronicles 21 Chronicles 2:4 word by word
וְתָמָר֙ כַּלָּת֔וֹ יָ֥לְדָה לּ֖וֹ אֶת־פֶּ֣רֶץ וְאֶת־זָ֑רַח כָּל־בְּנֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה חֲמִשָּֽׁה׃ סRead the interlinear
Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 2:4
- Genesis 38:13And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.
- Ruth 4:12and let thy house become like the house of Pherez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Jehovah shall give thee of this young woman.
- Matthew 1:3and Juda begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom, and Esrom begat Aram,
- 1 Chronicles 9:4Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pherez the son of Judah.
- Numbers 26:21And the sons of Pherez: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
- Ruth 4:18Now these are the generations of Pherez. Pherez begot Hezron,
- Nehemiah 11:4And in Jerusalem dwelt some of the children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Pherez;
- Luke 3:33of Aminadab, of Aram, of Esrom, of Phares, of Juda,
- 1 Chronicles 9:6And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel; and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.
- Numbers 26:13of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites; of Saul, the family of the Saulites.
- Nehemiah 11:24And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.
Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 2:4
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-5The main ancestral line of David comes from Perez, one of Tamar's sons. Tamar was Judah's widowed daughter-in-law. Hamul, one of Perez's sons, is not mentioned at all. The Chronicler might not have had information about him.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-121Ch 2:1, 2. Sons of Israel. 1Ch 2:3-12. Posterity of Judah. 3. The sons of Judah--His descendants are enumerated first, because the right and privileges of the primogeniture had been transferred to him (Ge 49:8), and because from his tribe the Messiah was to spring.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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