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1 Chronicles 2:5
5The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
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Context of 1 Chronicles 2:5
3The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bathshua, a Canaanite woman. Er, Judah’s firstborn, displeased the Lord, so the Lord killed him. 4Tamar, Judah’s daughter-in-law, bore to him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. 6The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Kalkol, Dara – five in all. 7The son of Carmi: Achan, who brought the disaster on Israel when he stole what was devoted to God.
Read all of 1 Chronicles 21 Chronicles 2:5 word by word
בְּנֵי־פֶ֖רֶץ חֶצְר֥וֹן וְחָמֽוּל׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 2:5
- Genesis 46:12The 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.
- Numbers 26:21And the Perezites were: from Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; from Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
- Ruth 4:18These are the descendants of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,
- Matthew 1:3Judah the father of Perez and Zerah (by Tamar), Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram,
- Luke 3:33the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,
Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 2:5
- 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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