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1 Chronicles 2:4

in 1 Chronicles 2

Tamar, Judah’s daughter-in-law, bore to him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 2

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah,.... Through incest; they were twins, Gen 38:27 all the sons of Judah were five; who are before mentioned by name.

This site's exposition

was wicked in the sight of the LORD

on 1 Chronicles 2:3-4

Er's wickedness is stated without explanation, a moral note the compressed list keeps rather than smooths over from Genesis 38. The tribe's record does not run through Er but through the twins Tamar bore by Judah, so Judah's line remembers a scandal it never hid.

This site's exposition

Tamar, Judah’s daughter-in-law, bore

Genesis 38 tells how Tamar, widowed by two of Judah's sons, bore twins to Judah himself. Perez, the first to be born, heads the line that reaches David in verses 9 to 15. Matthew 1:3 names Tamar in the genealogy of Jesus.

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְתָמָר֙and Tamar

    vetamarH8559 →

  • כַּלָּת֔וֹdaughter-in-law his

    kalatoH3618 →

  • יָ֥לְדָהshe bore

    yaldahH3205 →496 times

  • לּ֖וֹto him

    lo

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • פֶּ֣רֶץPerez

    peretzH6557 →15 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • זָ֑רַחZerah

    zarachH2226 →21 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] sons of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יְהוּדָ֖הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • חֲמִשָּֽׁה׃ ס[were] five

    chamishahH2568 →343 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Matthew 1:3

    Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 38:29–30

      But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.

    • 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.

    • Genesis 38:24–27

      About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”

    • 1 Chronicles 4:1

      The descendants of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.

    • Ruth 4:18–22

      Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,

  • Through

    Numbers 26:13

    the Zerahite clan from Zerah, and the Shaulite clan from Shaul.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 46:10

      The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

  • Through

    Nehemiah 11:4

    while some of the descendants of Judah and Benjamin settled in Jerusalem.) From the descendants of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 38:29

      But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 9:6

    From the Zerahites: Jeuel and 690 relatives.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 38:30

      Then his brother came out with the scarlet thread around his wrist, and he was named Zerah.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Berean Standard Bible, Genesis 38:27 to 30; Berean Standard Bible, Matthew 1:3; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.