JUDAH

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• Genesis 35:23

  The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

• Genesis 37:26

  Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

• Genesis 37:27

  Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.

• Genesis 38:1

  At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

• Genesis 38:2

  Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

• Genesis 38:3

  She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.

• Genesis 38:4

  She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.

• Genesis 38:5

  She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.

• Genesis 38:6

  Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

• Genesis 38:12

  After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

• Genesis 38:13

  Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

• Genesis 38:14

  She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.

• Genesis 38:15

  When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

• Genesis 38:16

  He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

• Genesis 38:17

  He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”

• Genesis 38:18

  He said, “What pledge will I give you?” She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.

• Genesis 38:19

  She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

• Genesis 38:20

  Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.

• Genesis 38:21

  Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?” They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”

• Genesis 38:22

  He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”

• Genesis 38:23

  Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”

• Genesis 38:24

  About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

• Genesis 38:25

  When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man, whose these are, I am with child.” She also said, “Please discern whose are these — the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”

• Genesis 38:26

  Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.

• Genesis 43:1

  The famine was severe in the land.

• Genesis 43:2

  When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”

• Genesis 43:3

  Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’

• Genesis 43:4

  If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food,

• Genesis 43:5

  but if you’ll not send him, we’ll not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”

• Genesis 43:6

  Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”

• Genesis 43:7

  They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’”

• Genesis 43:8

  Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

• Genesis 43:9

  I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,

• Genesis 43:10

  for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now.”

• Genesis 44:14

  Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.

• Genesis 44:15

  Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?”

• Genesis 44:16

  Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”

• Genesis 44:17

  He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”

• Genesis 44:18

  Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.

• Genesis 44:19

  My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’

• Genesis 44:20

  We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’

• Genesis 44:21

  You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’

• Genesis 44:22

  We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

• Genesis 44:23

  You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’

• Genesis 44:24

  When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

• Genesis 44:25

  Our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food.’

• Genesis 44:26

  We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’

• Genesis 44:27

  Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons:

• Genesis 44:28

  and the one went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces”; and I haven’t seen him since.

• Genesis 44:29

  If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’

• Genesis 44:30

  Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;

• Genesis 44:31

  it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

• Genesis 44:32

  For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’

• Genesis 44:33

  Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

• Genesis 44:34

  For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me? — lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”

• Genesis 46:28

  He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

• Genesis 49:8

  “Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.

• Genesis 49:9

  Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

• Genesis 49:10

  The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

• Genesis 49:11

  Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

• Genesis 49:12

  His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

• Numbers 1:26

  Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

• Numbers 1:27

  those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

• Numbers 2:3

  Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

• Numbers 2:4

  His division, and those who were counted of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

• Numbers 2:9

  All who were counted of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.

• Numbers 10:14

  First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.

• Numbers 26:22

  These are the families of Judah according to those who were counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.

• Deuteronomy 33:7

  This is for Judah. He said, “Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries.”

• Judges 1:1

  After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

• Judges 1:2

  Yahweh said, “Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.”

• Judges 1:3

  Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot.” So Simeon went with him.

• Judges 1:4

  Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.

• Judges 1:5

  They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

• Judges 1:6

  But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

• Judges 1:7

  Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

• Judges 1:8

  The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

• Judges 1:9

  After that, the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland.

• Judges 1:10

  Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

• Judges 1:11

  From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.)

• Judges 1:12

  Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”

• Judges 1:13

  Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.

• Judges 1:14

  When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She dismounted from off of her donkey; and Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”

• Judges 1:15

  She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

• Judges 1:16

  The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

• Judges 1:17

  Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.

• Judges 1:18

  Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.

• Judges 1:19

  Yahweh was with Judah; and drove out the inhabitants of the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

• Judges 1:20

  They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove the three sons of Anak out of there.

• Judges 1:21

  The children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

• 1 Samuel 11:8

  He counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

• 2 Samuel 2:1

  After this, David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” Yahweh said to him, “Go up.” David said, “Where shall I go up?” He said, “To Hebron.”

• 2 Samuel 2:2

  So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

• 2 Samuel 2:3

  David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron.

• 2 Samuel 2:4

  The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.”

• 2 Samuel 2:5

  David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, “Blessed are you by Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.

• 2 Samuel 2:6

  Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.

• 2 Samuel 2:7

  Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.”

• 2 Samuel 2:8

  Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

• 2 Samuel 2:9

  and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

• 2 Samuel 2:10

  Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.

• 2 Samuel 2:11

  The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

• 2 Samuel 5:4

  David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

• 2 Samuel 5:5

  In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

• 2 Samuel 19:11

  King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.

• 2 Samuel 19:12

  You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’

• 2 Samuel 19:13

  Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’”

• 2 Samuel 19:14

  He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”

• 2 Samuel 19:15

  So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.

• 2 Samuel 19:41

  Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”

• 2 Samuel 19:42

  All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?”

• 2 Samuel 19:43

  The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 20:1

  There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”

• 2 Samuel 20:2

  So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 24:9

  Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

• 1 Kings 12:20

  When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.

• 1 Kings 18:6

  So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

• 1 Kings 19:1

  Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

• 1 Kings 19:9

  He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

• 1 Chronicles 5:1

  The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.

• 1 Chronicles 5:2

  For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s) —

• 1 Chronicles 28:4

  However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

• Ezra 10:23

  Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

• Nehemiah 11:9

  Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.

• Nehemiah 12:8

  Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brothers.

• Nehemiah 12:34

  Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah,

• Nehemiah 12:36

  and his brothers, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.

• Psalms 60:7

  Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.

• Matthew 1:2

  Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

• Matthew 1:3

  Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.

• Revelation 5:5

  One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome; he who opens the book and its seven seals.”