1 Chronicles 2:4

Tamar bears Perez and Zerah to Judah, and the line of promise runs through Perez toward David and Christ.

Cross-references · 12

• Matt 1:3Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.
• Gen 38:13–30Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
• Ruth 4:18Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,
• Num 26:13of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
• Ruth 4:12Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which Yahweh will give you by this young woman.”
• Luke 3:33the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,
• Num 26:20–21The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
• 1 Chr 9:4Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.
• Neh 11:24Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.
• Gen 38:11Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up”; for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
• 1 Chr 9:6Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brothers, six hundred ninety.
• Neh 11:4Some of the children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin lived in Jerusalem. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;

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