1 Chronicles 2:2-4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.(A)
Judah. 3 The sons of Judah[a] were: Er, Onan, and Shelah; these three Bathshua, a Canaanite woman, bore to him. But Judah’s firstborn, Er, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, so he took his life.(B) 4 Judah’s daughter-in-law Tamar bore him Perez and Zerah, so that he had five sons in all.(C)
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- 2:3–4:23 The Chronicler had two reasons for placing his genealogy of the tribe of Judah before those of the other tribes, and for making it longer than all the others: his interest in David, who was of the tribe of Judah; and the prominence of descendants of that tribe among the Jews of the Chronicler’s time.
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