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According to some Bible critics who contextually read this passage, the description of Onan is an origin myth concerning fluctuations in the constituency of the tribe of Judah, with the death of Onan reflecting the dying out of a clan; [39] [40] Er and Onan are hence viewed as each being representative of a clan, with Onan possibly representing ...
The number of sons by name in the Bible is 19. In addition, two further unnamed sons are recorded as having been born in Jerusalem, one, probably both, having died in infancy. One of these was the first child born of David's adulterous relationship with Bathsheba. Only one of David's daughters, Tamar, [1] is mentioned by name. [2]
This article discusses close relatives of Judah. Er is also a name listed by the Gospel of Luke's version of the genealogy of Jesus. In the biblical Book of Genesis, Er (Hebrew: עֵר, Modern: Er, Tiberian: ʻĒr "watcher"; [1] Greek: Ἤρ) was the eldest son of Judah and his Canaanite wife, the daughter of Shuah. He is described as marrying ...
The gap, a maximum of 22 years, is somewhat small to contain within it Judah's first marriage, the birth of Er and Onan, Er's marriage to Tamar, Tamar's subsequent pregnancy by Judah, and the birth of Judah's children (Judah was the father and his daughter-in-law, Tamar, was the mother); the passage is also widely regarded as an abrupt change ...
The Israelites were the descendants of twelve sons of the biblical patriarch Jacob. Jacob also had at least one daughter, Dinah, whose descendants were not recognized as a tribe. The sons of Jacob were born in Padan-aram from different mothers, as follows: [4] The sons of Leah; Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun
Son of David by Bathsheba, his rights of succession were disputed by his older half-brother Adonijah: 922–915: 931–913: 931–914: 931–915: Rehoboam: רחבעם בן-שלמה מלך יהודה Rechav'am ben Shlomo, Melekh Yehudah. Reigned for 17 years. After 3 years, the kingdom was split into the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. Death ...
The grandson of Hezekiah ben David through his eldest son David ben Chyzkia, Hiyya al-Daudi, died in 1154 in Castile according to Abraham ibn Daud and is the ancestor of the ibn Yahya family. Several families, as late as the 14th century, traced their descent back to Josiah, the brother of David ben Zakkai who had been banished to Chorasan (see ...
So Judah told her to wait until Shelah had grown up. [7] When Shelah came of age, Judah neglected to marry him to Tamar. [8] In the Book of Chronicles, Shelah is identified as the name of a clan, containing a subclan named Er. According 1 Chronicles 4:21–23, the sons of Shelah were: Er, the father of Lecah; Laadah, the father of Mareshah.