CONTENTS This Chapter is a digression from the subject of Joseph's history, but it becomes a very interesting one, because it records the race of Judah, another of Jacob's sons. And as our LORD sprang out of Judah, according to the flesh, (Hebrews 7:14.) it is indeed highly important to trace the d... [ Continue Reading ]
See 1 Chronicles 2:3; Numbers 26:19. Reader! observe here the general feature of last since the fall. See Genesis 6:4; Genesis 6:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
Chezib means a lie, deceit. It was a little village. Joshua 15:44; Micah 1:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! pause over this history. Who shall take upon him to say, to what extent this unnatural sin hath been prevalent in all ages! Though hidden from human observation, with what malignity must the vast mass of such works of darkness come up before GOD! Oh! how precious, increasingly precious, is J... [ Continue Reading ]
Timnath, a place remarkable for intrigue. See Judges 14:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
Leviticus 22:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
Judges 14:1. It is worthy remark, that though there are, I believe, but four women named in the list of the ancestors of CHRIST, after the flesh, in Matthew's relation of the pedigree, this is one of them, Matthew 1:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Peter describes this lust, in strong expressions, 2 Peter 2:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
I wish the same answer could be made of many a place now.... [ Continue Reading ]
Leviticus 21:9. As Tamar was by right betrothed to Judah's third son, no doubt it was adultery in her.... [ Continue Reading ]
How strikingly true is that scripture to this conduct! Romans 2:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is not this a type of the Jewish and Gentile churches?... [ Continue Reading ]
Is not this typical also, like that of Esau and Jacob, of the struggle of the churches?... [ Continue Reading ]
Pharez means a breach. Matthew 1:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Zarah means a Riser, or Returner. And so we trust will be the return of our elder brother the Jew, to the redemption of the LORD, when that blessed scripture comes to be fulfilled; Romans 11:25; Genesis 38:1 REFLECTIONS What hath sin wrought in all ages! What a dreadful bias to evil is naturally in... [ Continue Reading ]