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• Tribe of Judah

  The tribe of Judah was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, made up of the descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. It was the leading tribe of the Davidic dynasty and of the southern kingdom of Judah, and the New Testament presents Jesus as a descendant of this tribe.

• Judah (Son of Jacob)

  Judah was the fourth son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of the tribe of Judah, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Davidic royal line descended from him, and the New Testament presents Jesus as his descendant.

• Kingdom of Judah

  The Kingdom of Judah, usually called simply "Judah" in the Bible and often "Southern Judah" in Korean churches, 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.

• Carmel (Judah)

  Carmel (Judah) was a town in the southern hill country of Judah, near Maon and south of Hebron. Saul set up a monument there, and it is the setting of the story of Nabal and Abigail. It is distinct from Mount Carmel in the north.

• Wilderness of Judah

  The Wilderness of Judah is an arid region stretching from the eastern slopes of the Judean hill country down to the Dead Sea. Scripture presents it as the place where David hid from Saul and where John the Baptist proclaimed repentance.

• Ahaziah (King of Judah)

  Ahaziah was a king of the southern kingdom of Judah and the son of Jehoram and Athaliah. He reigned for one year and was killed along with Joram, king of the northern kingdom of Israel, when Jehu rebelled (2 Kings 9; 2 Chronicles 22).

• Jehoram (King of Judah)

  Jehoram was an Old Testament king of the southern kingdom of Judah, the son of Jehoshaphat and the husband of Athaliah, daughter of Ahab. His reign is recorded in 2 Kings 8 and 2 Chronicles 21.

• Zerah (Son of Judah)

  Zerah was one of the twin sons born to Judah and Tamar, the other being Perez. His descendants formed the Zerahites (KJV "Zarhites"), a family within the tribe of Judah from which Achan came.

• Jehoahaz (King of Judah)

  Jehoahaz was a son of King Josiah of Judah. He came to the throne after his father's death and reigned for three months. Pharaoh Necho of Egypt deposed him and carried him off to Egypt, where he died. The Book of Jeremiah refers to him as Shallum.

• Er (son of Judah)

  Er was the firstborn son of Judah, the son of Jacob. Genesis 38 records that he married Tamar but, being "wicked in the sight of the LORD," died without children.

• Shelah (Son of Judah)

  Shelah was the third son of Judah, the son of Jacob, by the daughter of Shua the Canaanite. After the deaths of his brothers Er and Onan, he was next in line to marry their widow, Tamar. Judah's failure to give him to Tamar sets in motion the narrative of Genesis 38.

• Sennacherib's Invasion of Judah

  Sennacherib's invasion of Judah is the event, recounted in Scripture, in which Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked the cities of Judah and threatened Jerusalem in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah. According to the biblical account, Jerusalem did not fall because God intervened.

• Judas Maccabeus

  Judas Maccabeus was a leader of the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid king Antiochus IV in the second century BC. He recaptured the Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it.

• Hezekiah

  Hezekiah was a king who ruled the southern kingdom of Judah from the late eighth to the early seventh century BC. Scripture presents him as a king who removed idols and restored temple worship, and he is widely known for the accounts of the Assyrian invasion and of his prayer during his illness.

• Joash

  Joash was a king of Judah who survived Athaliah's massacre of the royal family and came to the throne at the age of seven. He repaired the temple, but according to 2 Chronicles, after the death of the high priest Jehoiada he served idols and had Jehoiada's son Zechariah put to death.

• Uzziah

  Uzziah was an eighth-century BC king of the southern kingdom of Judah who is called Azariah in 2 Kings. He had a long reign and strengthened the nation, but when he attempted to burn incense in the temple he was struck with leprosy and lived in isolation until his death.

• Jehoiakim

  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 the LORD gave through Jeremiah.

• Jotham

  Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was a king of Judah who reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem in the mid-eighth century BC. Scripture assesses him as a king who did what was right in the sight of the LORD.

• Amaziah

  Amaziah was the ninth king of the southern kingdom of Judah, the son of Joash and the father of Uzziah. After defeating Edom, he worshiped the gods of Edom; he later challenged the northern kingdom of Israel to battle and suffered a crushing defeat.

• Sheshbazzar

  Sheshbazzar was a leader of Judah who, during the reign of the Persian king Cyrus, received the vessels of the Jerusalem temple and led the first return of the Babylonian exiles. He appears in Ezra 1 and 5.