Perez and Solomon have something in common. i.e. both of them were born, say illegitimately.
Solomon's story is more popular. He was the son of King David to Bathsheba, the wife of an Army General whom David saw taking a bathe from, maybe a window in David's palace. And then many things happened consequently after that but in the end, Solomon was born.
Perez story was not known apart from he being one of the twins born by Tamar to Judah. Tamar became pregnant when she pretended to be a prostitute to Judah - his father in-law who sent her home when Judah's sons died one after another.
While we don't know much about Perez, we can deduce that he had become a great man when the elders in the story of Ruth wished Ruth and Boaz wished them that may their house be one like that of Perez.
Being born out of wedlock is never the fault of the child and therefore it should not be taken as something disgraceful. What matters is what had become to the person rather than how he came to be.
bad-star - a person born illegitimately.
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