Tamar, Judah’s daughter-in-law, bore to him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.

After Rehoboam’s rule was established and solidified, he and all Israel rejected the law of the Lord.

He ordered Judah to seek the Lord God of their ancestors and to observe his law and commands.

“Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, a scribe of the perfect law of the God of heaven:

How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O Lord, the one whom you teach from your law,

א (Alef) How blessed are those whose actions are blameless, who obey the law of the Lord.

Give me understanding so that I might observe your law, and keep it with all my heart.

Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me. Yet I do not turn aside from your law.

The law you have revealed is more important to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

The one who keeps the law is a discerning child, but a companion of gluttons brings shame to his parents.

The one who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty.

I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!

Her prophets are proud; they are deceitful men. Her priests defile what is holy; they break God’s laws.

In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?”

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.