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Summary
And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
And sat
Timnath
That shelah
Bible References
And sat
Proverbs 7:12 She is now in the streets, now in the squares,
Andlurks by every corner.
And
Jeremiah 3:2 “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see;
Where have you not been violated?
By the roads you havesat for them
Like an Arab in the desert,
And you havepolluted a land
With your harlotry and with your wickedness.
Where have you not been violated?
By the roads you have
Like an Arab in the desert,
And you have
With your harlotry and with your wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:25
You built yourself a high place at the top of every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry.
Timnath
Genesis 38:12
Now after a considerable time Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and when the time of mourning was ended, Judah went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
That shelah
Genesis 38:11
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up”; for he thought, “I am afraid that he too may die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.