“And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.”
What he did was wicked in the LORD's sight; so the LORD put him to death also. The second death — the same formula as verse 7 — confirms the pattern: wickedness before the LORD brings judgment. The application: the pattern of two deaths — Er and Onan — is the narrative's establishment of the justice that will make Judah's withholding of Shelah unconscionable.
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