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Jehu son of Hanani
[People]Jehu son of Hanani was a prophet during the period of the divided kingdom. He pronounced judgment on Baasha, king of northern Israel, and rebuked Jehoshaphat, king of Judah. He is distinct from Jehu, the king of northern Israel who bore the same name.
Azariah (Son of Oded)
[People]Azariah, the son of Oded, was a prophet during the reign of King Asa of Judah. In 2 Chronicles 15 he urged Asa to seek the LORD, prompting the removal of idols and a renewal of the covenant.
Jonathan (son of Kareah)
[People]Jonathan, son of Kareah and brother of Johanan, was one of the captains of the forces of Judah who came to Gedaliah, governor of Judah, at Mizpah after the fall of Jerusalem.
Manasseh (son of Joseph)
[People]Manasseh was the firstborn son of Joseph, born in Egypt. Adopted by Jacob as his own son, he became the ancestor of one of the tribes of Israel. He is distinct from Manasseh, king of Judah.
Jehu (son of Hanani)
[People]Jehu, the son of Hanani, was a prophet of the divided monarchy who announced the destruction of the house of Baasha, king of northern Israel, and rebuked Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, for helping Ahab.
Onan
[People]Onan was the second son of Judah, the son of Jacob. He refused the duty of raising up offspring for his deceased elder brother Er through his brother's widow, Tamar, and was slain by the LORD (Genesis 38).
Jehoiakim
[People]A king of Judah in the kingdom's final years and a son of Josiah. He was placed on the throne by Pharaoh Necho of Egypt and is known as the king who burned the scroll containing the words proclaimed by Jeremiah.
Mered
[People]Mered is a man named in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4, where he is identified as a son of Ezrah. He is recorded as having married Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh.
Amon
[People]Amon was a king of Judah, the son of Manasseh and the father of Josiah. He reigned in Jerusalem for two years before his servants conspired against him and killed him in his palace.
Zedekiah
[People]Zedekiah was the last king of the Kingdom of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, placed him on the throne, but Zedekiah rebelled against him. When Jerusalem fell, he was blinded and carried off to Babylon.
Kingdom of Judah
[Bible]The Kingdom of Judah, usually called simply "Judah" in the Bible, was the southern kingdom, with Jerusalem as its capital, that remained when the kingdom of Israel divided after Solomon's death. Descendants of David held its throne until its fall to Babylon.
Sheba (son of Bichri)
[People]Sheba, a Benjaminite and the son of Bichri, lived in the time of King David. Shortly after Absalom's rebellion ended, he incited the tribes of Israel to revolt against David and was put to death in the city of Abel (2 Samuel 20).
Nahshon
[People]Nahshon was the leader of the tribe of Judah during the wilderness period after the Exodus. The son of Amminadab and the brother-in-law of Aaron, he appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ.
Amminadab
[People]Amminadab was a man of the tribe of Judah, the son of Ram and the father of Nahshon and Elisheba. He was the father-in-law of Aaron, and his name appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ.
Asa
[People]Asa was the third king of the southern kingdom of Judah during the period of the divided monarchy. Scripture evaluates him favorably for reforms that removed idols, but in his later years he was rebuked for allying with Aram and imprisoning a seer.
Zedekiah son of Chenaanah
[People]Zedekiah son of Chenaanah was a prophet in the time of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel. He prophesied victory in the war against Aram and struck the prophet Micaiah on the cheek. He appears in 1 Kings 22 and 2 Chronicles 18.
Sheba (Son of Bichri)
[People]Sheba son of Bichri was a Benjamite who appears in 2 Samuel 20. Shortly after Absalom's rebellion, he rose up against David but was killed by the inhabitants of the city of Abel-beth-maachah.
Perez
[People]Perez was one of the twin sons born to Judah and Tamar. He is recorded in the genealogies of Ruth and Matthew 1 as an ancestor of David and of Jesus Christ.
Ahaziah
[People]Ahaziah is the name of two kings who reigned during the divided monarchy of the Old Testament. One was the son of Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel; the other was the son of Jehoram of the southern kingdom of Judah, who was pursued by Jehu and died at Megiddo.
Rehoboam
[People]Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, inherited the united kingdom of Israel but became the first king of the southern kingdom of Judah after the ten northern tribes broke away.