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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• Carmi (son of Zabdi)

  Carmi is an Old Testament figure from the clan of Zerah in the tribe of Judah. He was the son of Zabdi and the father of Achan, who secretly took some of the devoted things at Jericho. His name appears in Joshua 7 and 1 Chronicles 2:7.

• 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.

• Gedaliah (son of Pashur)

  Gedaliah was an official of Judah during the reign of King Zedekiah. In Jeremiah 38, he and other officials asked the king to put the prophet Jeremiah to death, and Jeremiah was then lowered into a muddy pit.

• Pashur (son of Malchiah)

  Pashur son of Malchiah was a high official of Judah during the reign of King Zedekiah. At the king's request he asked Jeremiah to pray for the city, and he later took part in having Jeremiah confined in a cistern.

• Uri (son of Hur)

  Uri is a man of the tribe of Judah in the Old Testament, the son of Hur and the father of Bezalel, the craftsman who made the tabernacle and its furnishings.

• 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.

• Ishmael (son of Nethaniah)

  Ishmael son of Nethaniah was a military commander of the royal line of Judah who, after the fall of Jerusalem, killed Gedaliah, the Babylonian-appointed governor of Judah, at Mizpah.

• Shammai (son of Onam)

  Shammai was a member of the Jerahmeelite clan of the tribe of Judah, the son of Onam and the father of Nadab and Abishur. His name appears only in the genealogy of 1 Chronicles 2.

• Eliezer (son of Dodavah)

  Eliezer was a prophet during the reign of King Jehoshaphat of Judah and the son of Dodavah of Mareshah. He rebuked Jehoshaphat for allying with King Ahaziah of the northern kingdom of Israel to build ships, and he prophesied that the ships would be wrecked (2 Chronicles 20:37).

• Zechariah son of Jehoiada

  Zechariah son of Jehoiada was a member of a priestly family during the reign of King Joash of Judah. After rebuking the people for idolatry, he was stoned to death in the temple court at the king's command (2 Chronicles 24).

• Zechariah (Son of Jehoiada)

  Zechariah was the son of the priest Jehoiada during the reign of Joash, king of Judah. He rebuked the people for idolatry and, at the king's command, was stoned to death in the court of the temple (2 Chronicles 24).

• Johanan (son of Kareah)

  Johanan the son of Kareah was one of the military captains who remained in the land of Judah after Babylon destroyed Jerusalem. He warned Governor Gedaliah of a plot to assassinate him and, contrary to the word of Jeremiah, led the remnant of the people down to Egypt.

• Zephaniah (son of Maaseiah)

  Zephaniah son of Maaseiah was a priest who served as the second priest, ranking next to the high priest, during the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. He was sent by the king as an envoy to Jeremiah and was executed at Riblah after the fall of Jerusalem.

• Zebadiah (son of Ishmael)

  Zebadiah, the son of Ishmael and a leader of the tribe of Judah, lived during the reign of King Jehoshaphat of Judah. When the king established a judicial system in Jerusalem, Zebadiah was placed over "all the king's matters" (2 Chronicles 19:11).