Numbers 26:19
in Numbers 26The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.
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ASV
The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
KJV
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
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This verse in Numbers 26
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan
on Numbers 26:19-22
Er and Onan are written into Judah's roll and struck out of it in the same verse, since they died in the land of Canaan and left no family to carry a name. Genesis 38 is where that happened, and the son born afterward is Pharez, whose family stands here. Ruth 4:18-22 runs Pharez down to David and Matthew 1:3 runs him down to Christ. Judah is the largest tribe in both censuses, seventy and six thousand and five hundred here against seventy and four thousand and six hundred at Sinai.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the sons of Judah were Er and Onan,....
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵ֥י | benei | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יְהוּדָ֖ה | yehudah | Judah | H3063 → | 819 times |
| עֵ֣ר | ʾer | [were] Er | H6147 → | |
| וְאוֹנָ֑ן | veonan | and Onan | H209 → | |
| וַיָּ֥מָת | vaiyamot | and he died | H4191 → | 839 times |
| עֵ֛ר | ʾer | Er | H6147 → | |
| וְאוֹנָ֖ן | veonan | and Onan | H209 → | |
| בְּאֶ֥רֶץ | beeretz | in [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| כְּנָֽעַן׃ | kenaan | Canaan | H3667 → | 94 times |
בְּנֵ֥י[the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
יְהוּדָ֖הJudah
yehudahH3063 →819 times
עֵ֣ר[were] Er
ʾerH6147 →
וְאוֹנָ֑ןand Onan
veonanH209 →
וַיָּ֥מָתand he died
vaiyamotH4191 →839 times
עֵ֛רEr
ʾerH6147 →
וְאוֹנָ֖ןand Onan
veonanH209 →
בְּאֶ֥רֶץin [the] land of
beeretzH776 →2504 times
כְּנָֽעַן׃Canaan
kenaanH3667 →94 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach 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
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: Hezron and Hamul.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 4:21
The sons of Shelah son of Judah:
- Genesis 29:35
And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.
- Genesis 38:10
What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.
- Genesis 38:7
But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.
- 1 Chronicles 5:2
And though Judah prevailed over his brothers and a ruler came from him, the birthright belonged to Joseph.
- 1 Chronicles 4:21
About Numbers
Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonPatriarchsJudahJacob's fourth son who pledges himself for Benjamin; the tribe that carries the scepter to Shiloh (49:10) and the line to Christ (…
- PlaceThe LevantCanaanThe land God promised to Abraham's seed, walked and marked with altars by the patriarchs and possessed under Joshua four centuries…
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.