Genesis 38:1
Good News Translation
About that time Judah left his brothers and went to stay with a man named Hirah, who was from the town of Adullam.

New Revised Standard Version
It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and settled near a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah.

Contemporary English Version
About that time Judah left his brothers in the hill country and went to live near his friend Hirah in the town of Adullam.

New American Bible
About that time Judah went down, away from his brothers, and pitched his tent near a certain Adullamite named Hirah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At that time Juda went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Odollamite, named Hiras.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

At that time Juda went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Odollamite, named Hiras.

A.

2265. B.C.

1739.
it came. As there cannot be above

23 years from the selling of Joseph, unto Israel's going down into Egypt; and as it is impossible that Judah should take a wife, and by her have three sons successively, and Shelah, the youngest, marriageable when Judah begat Pharez of Tamar, and Pharez be grown up, married, and have two sons, all within so short a period; Mr. Ainsworth conceives that the time here spoken of is soon after Jacob's coming to Shechem, (ch.

33.) We have accordingly adapted the chronology to correspond with that time.

turned.

Genesis 19:2,3 And said: I beseech you, my lords, turn in to the house of your servant, and lodge there: wash your feet, and in the morning you shall go on your way. And they said: No, but we will abide in the street. . . .

Judges 4:18 And Jahel went forth to meet Sisara, and said to him: Come in to me, my lord; come in, fear not. He went into her tent, and being covered by her with a cloak,

2 Kings 4:8 And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a great woman there, who detained him to eat bread: and as he passed often that way, he turned into her house to eat bread.

Proverbs 9:6 He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself; and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot.

Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: a friend of fools shall become like to them.

Adullamite.

Joshua 12:15 The king of Lebna one, the king of Odullam one,

Joshua 15:35 And Jerimoth and Adullam, Socho and Azeca,

1 Samuel 22:1 David therefore went from thence, and fled to the cave of Odollam. And when his brethren, and all his father's house, had heard of it, they went down to him thither.

2 Samuel 23:13 Moreover also before this the three who were princes among the thirty, went down and came to David in the harvest time into the cave of Odollam: and the camp of the Philistines was in the valley of the giants.

Micah 1:15 Therefore shall she send messengers to the inheritance of Geth: the houses of lying to deceive the kings of Israel.

Context
Judah and Tamar
1At that time Juda went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Odollamite, named Hiras.2And he saw there the daughter of a man of Chanaan, called Sue: and taking her to wife, he went in unto her.…
Cross References
Genesis 38:12
And after many days were past: the daughter of Sue the wife of Juda died: and when he had taken comfort after his mourning, he went up to Thamnas, to the shearers of his sheep, he and Hiras the Odollamite, the shepherd of his flock.

Genesis 38:20
And Juda sent a kid by his shepherd, the Odollamite, that he might receive the pledge again, which he had given to the woman: but he, not finding her,

Joshua 15:35
And Jerimoth and Adullam, Socho and Azeca,

1 Samuel 22:1
David therefore went from thence, and fled to the cave of Odollam. And when his brethren, and all his father's house, had heard of it, they went down to him thither.

Genesis 37:36
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