Judah
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Jacob blessed his son Judah: “The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs” (Genesis 49:10). The tribe descended from him received its inheritance in the south of the land, and “the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah” (2 Samuel 2:4).
When the northern tribes made Jeroboam king, “there was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only” (1 Kings 12:20), and the southern kingdom took the name Judah. It outlasted the northern kingdom until Babylon: “So Judah was carried away captive out of his land” (2 Kings 25:21). After the return its land became the province of Judea.
“It is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah” (Hebrews 7:14): Christ is “the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David” (Revelation 5:5).
For Jacob's son himself, see Judah.
Every mention
Genesis3 mentions
Exodus3 mentions
Numbers11 mentions
Deuteronomy3 mentions
Joshua22 mentions
Judges22 mentions
Ruth3 mentions
1 Samuel14 mentions
2 Samuel26 mentions
1 Kings39 mentions
2 Kings88 mentions
2 Chronicles145 mentions
Nehemiah22 mentions
Esther1 mention
Proverbs1 mention
Isaiah26 mentions
Jeremiah165 mentions
Obadiah1 mention
Nahum1 mention
Zechariah20 mentions
Matthew1 mention
Luke1 mention
What the dictionary says
Praise, the fourth son of Jacob by Leah.
Sources
- Gospel Companion · written from the verses (WEB) for this entry
- Corrected by Gospel Companion · these verses speak of the tribe, kingdom or land, not the man; these verses speak of both the man and the people named after him
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · Public domain