1 Chronicles 2:3

_THE SONS OF JUDAH; ER, AND ONAN, AND SHELAH: WHICH THREE WERE BORN UNTO HIM OF THE DAUGHTER OF SHUA THE CANAANITESS. AND ER, THE FIRSTBORN OF JUDAH, WAS EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD; AND HE SLEW HIM._ The sons of Judah. His descendants are enumerated first, because the right and privileges of the primogeniture had been transferred to him (Genesis 49:8), and because from his tribe the Messiah was to spring....

EXPOSITION The interest of this chapter owes something to the several unsatisfied questions which it suggests, to difficult and knotty points which nevertheless do not altogether counsel despair, and to occasional significant indications of sources drawn upon by the compiler, certainly quite additional to the contents of the existing books of the Old Testament. We know something of what we have to expect when the name of Israel, or Jacob, is announced in the first verse, with his twelve sons—those "patriarchs," some of whom (certainly not as many as eleven, for Reuben was absent, and, with scarcely a doubt, Benjamin), "moved with envy, sold into Egypt Joseph," the twelfth (Acts 7:9). We here enter, in fact, upon the genealogies and tables and enumeratious of collateral lines of "all Israel," to which the whole of the following seven chapters are devoted ...

THE SONS OF JUDAH,.... The genealogy begins with him, though the fourth son of Jacob; because, as Kimchi says, this book treats chiefly of the kings of Judah; but rather not only because Jesse and David sprang from him, but also the King Messiah: ER, AND ONAN, AND SHELAH, WHICH THREE WERE BORN UNTO HIM OF THE DAUGHTER OF SHUA THE CANAANITESS; see Genesis 38:2, AND ER, THE FIRSTBORN OF JUDAH, WAS EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD; because he did that which was evil: AND HE SLEW HIM; he died by the immediate hand of God, and so his brother Onan, being wicked also, Genesis 38:7....

2. THE SONS OF ISRAEL AND THE DESCENDANTS OF JUDAH (2:1-4:23) CHAPTER 2 From Israel to Caleb _ 1. The sons of Israel (1 Chronicles 2:1)_ 2. The sons of Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3) 3. The offspring of Jesse (1 Chronicles 2:13) 4. The descendants of Caleb (1 Chronicles 2:18) 5. The descendants of Jerahmeel (1 Chronicles 2:25) 6. Other descendants of Caleb (1 Chron

PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogies, often in an incomplete form: Adam to Israel (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 2:2) with the exception of Cain's descendants (Genesis 4:16) the whole material is taken from Genesis 1-36; Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3); David (1 Chronicles 3:1); Judah again, and made up of fragments ...

JUDAH. Put first because of his being chief. Compare Genesis 38:1....

The Descent of the Sons of Jesse from Judah 4. _Pharez_ R.V. PEREZ....

THE SONS OF JUDAH— Judah is here placed first, for nearly the same reasons as those assigned in the note on the first verse of the former chapter. The Saviour of the world, the seed of the woman, was ordained to descend from him....

LESSON TWO 4-6 I. GENEALOGIES FROM ADAM TO DAVID (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 9:44) 3. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH (1 Chronicles 2:1-55, 1 Chronicles 4:23) INTRODUCTION The sons of Judah were mothered by Canaanite women, however, Perez was destined to be very important in God's plans. Several familiar names appear in Chapter s 4-6. The families of the Levites were to have their inheritance in the land of Palestine. TEXT 1 Chronicles 2:1. These ar

GENEALOGIES (CONTINUED) The genealogies in this chapter comprise the descendants of Isaac through Israel (Jacob), and the descendants of Judah....