Er

How Nave’s arranged it

• 1. Son of JudahGenesis 38:3Genesis 38:6Genesis 38:7Genesis 46:12Numbers 26:191 Chronicles 2:3
• 2. A son of Shelah1 Chronicles 4:21
• 3. An ancestor of, JesusLuke 3:28

The passages, in Bible order (8)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 8 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 38:3

   So she conceived and gave birth to a son, and Judah named him Er.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 38:31 voice

   “And she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Er. Which signifies a "watchman": but the reason of the name given by the Targum of Jonathan is,"because he should die without children;''as if it was the same with Ariri, "childless".

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2. Genesis 38:6

   Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

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3. Genesis 38:7

   But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 38:72 voices

   “And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord,.... That is, exceedingly wicked, as this phrase signifies, Gen 13:13, was guilty of some very heinous sin, but what is not mentioned; according to the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi, it was the same with his brother Onan's, Gen 38:9, which it is suggested he committed, lest his wife should prove with child, and lose her beauty; but if it had been the same with his, it would have been expressed as well as his.

   Er - was wicked in the sight of the Lord - What this wickedness consisted in we are not told; but the phrase sight of the Lord being added, proves that it was some very great evil. It is worthy of remark that the Hebrew word used to express Er’s wickedness is his own name, the letters reversed. Er ער wicked, רע ra. As if the inspired writer had said, “Er was altogether wicked, a completely abandoned character.”

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4. Genesis 46:12

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

   ›Commentary on Genesis 46:122 voices

   “In the speech of Stephen (Ac 7:14) the number is stated to be seventy-five; but as that estimate includes five sons of Ephraim and Manasseh (1Ch 7:14-20), born in Egypt, the two accounts coincide.

   “The sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul - It is not likely that Pharez was more than ten years of age when he came into Egypt, and if so he could not have had children; therefore it is necessary to consider Hezron and Hamul as being born during the seventeen years that Jacob sojourned in Egypt, See Clarke on Gen 46:8 (note): and it appears necessary, for several reasons, to take these seventeen years into the account, as it is very probable that what is called the going down into Egypt includes the seventeen years which Jacob spent there.

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5. Numbers 26:19

   The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.

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6. 1 Chronicles 2:3

   The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, who put him to death.

   ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 2:31 voice

   “Judah - Whom he puts first, because the best part of the right of the firstborn, namely, the dominion, was conferred upon him, Gen. xlix, 8, and because the Messiah was to come out of his loins.

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7. 1 Chronicles 4:21

   The sons of Shelah son of Judah:

   ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 4:212 voices

   “Their knowledge of the art of linen manufacture had been, most probably, acquired in Egypt, where the duty of bringing up families to the occupations of their forefathers was a compulsory obligation, whereas in Israel, as in many parts of Asia to this day, it was optional, though common.

   “This Laadah is said to be the father of those that wrought fine linen, as before the flood Jubal is said to be the father of musicians and Jabal of shepherds, &c. His posterity inhabited the city of Mareshah, the manufacture or staple commodity of which place was linen-cloth, with which their kings and priests were clothed.

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8. Luke 3:28

   the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,

   ›Commentary on Luke 3:281 voice

   “This, with the following, "Addi, Cosam, Elmodam, Er, Jose, Eliezer, Jorim, Matthat, Levi, Simeon, Juda, Joseph, Jonan, Eliakim, Melea, Menan, and Mattatha", all lived before the captivity, and were of the house of David, in the line of Nathan; for it follows, which was the son of Nathan: of which persons no mention is made in the Old Testament, nor even of Mattatha, the son of Nathan: his sons that are mentioned are Azariah, Zabud, and Ahishar, 1Ki 4:5 which last is thought to be the same with Mattatha: that Nathan was the son of David, as the order of things here directs, which was the son of David, is clear from 2Sa 5:

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