Here again, we have another interruption; but never allow for a moment that anything is not perfect in the Word of God.
It is right that we should see what the leader in this wickedness was; it is well that we should know what the character and conduct of Judah was, whom we afterward see the object of wondrous counsels on God’s part. The answer lies in the shameful account of Judah, his sons, and his daughter-in-law, and himself in Genesis 38.
Yet of that very line was He born, with her name specified too, which points to the most painfully humiliating tale that we find perhaps anywhere in the book of Genesis. But what humiliation was He not willing to undergo who had love as well as glory incomparably greater than Joseph’s!