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am 2265, bc 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 - Gen 33:1. We have accordingly adapted the chronology to correspond with that time.
turned: Gen 19:2, Gen 19:3, Jdg 4:18, 2Ki 4:8, Pro 9:6, Pro 13:20
Adullamite: An inhabitant of Adullam, a city of Canaan, afterwards given to Judah, situated in the southern part of that tribe, west of Hebron. Jos 12:15, Jos 15:35, 1Sa 22:1, 2Sa 23:13, Mic 1:15
Reciprocal: Gen 29:35 - called Gen 38:12 - Timnath Gen 46:12 - Judah Num 26:19 - Er and Onan 2Sa 13:3 - a friend