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1 Chronicles 2:3
1 Chronicles 2:3 is verse 3 of 1 Chronicles chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, who put him to death.
King James Version
The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.
World English Bible
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah, which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight; and he killed him.
“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.
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1 Chronicles 2:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
3 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, who put him to death.
4 Tamar, Judah’s daughter-in-law, bore to him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
5 The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Chronicles 9:5From the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn and his sons.
Genesis 38:2There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.
Genesis 38:3So she conceived and gave birth to a son, and Judah named him Er.
Genesis 38:4Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.
Genesis 38:5Then she gave birth to another son and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.
Genesis 38:6Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
Genesis 38:7But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.
Genesis 38:8Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
Genesis 38:9But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
Genesis 38:10What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.
Genesis 46:12The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
Numbers 26:19The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.