Judah the Prince, (, Yehudah HaNasi ) or Judah I, also known as Rabbi or Rabbenu HaQadosh (, " our Master, the holy one "), was a 2nd-century CE rabbi and chief redactor and editor of the Mishnah.

Ezra begins with Cyrus the Great entrusting the Temple vessels to Sheshbazzar (, " prince of Judah "; this apparently important figure then disappears from the story almost entirely, and Zerubbabel is abruptly introduced as the main figure.

(, ) On hearing this news, all the Jews that were in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and in other countries returned to Judah.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes a significant portion of its members to be descended from Ephraim, arguing that they are charged with restoring the lost tribes in the latter days as prophesied by Isaiah, and that the tribes of both Ephraim and Judah will play important leadership roles for covenant Israel in the last days ; some believe that this would be the fulfilment of part of the Blessing of Jacob, where it states that Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall (, interpreting the " wall " as the ocean ).

According to the Hebrew Bible, Bathsheba (, Bath Shebha, " daughter of the oath ") (, " ابنة القسم ") was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.

* Johanan, son of Kareah, mentioned as a leader of the army who led the remnant of the population of the Kingdom of Judah to Egypt for safety ( against the advice of Jeremiah – see ), after the Babylonian dismantling of the kingdom in 586 BC and the subsequent assassination of Gedaliah, the Babylon-appointed Jewish governor (, )

Solomon ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah (, Shelomo ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol ;, Abu Ayyūb Suleiman ibn Yahya ibn Jabirūl ;, a corruption of Ibn Gibran ), was an Andalusian Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neoplatonic bent.

Yehuda Alharizi, also Judah ben Solomon Harizi or al-Harizi (, Yehudah ben Shelomo al-Harizi,, Yahya bin Sulaiman bin Sha ' ul abu Zakaria al-Harizi al-Yahudi min ahl Tulaitila ) was a rabbi, translator, poet and traveller active in Spain in the Middle Ages ( in Toledo?

(, ) On hearing of the appointment, the Jews that had fled to Moab, Ammon, Edom and in other countries returned to Judah.

Libnah or Lobna (, whiteness ; ) was a town in the Kingdom of Judah.

According to the Talmud ( Avodah Zarah 10a-b ), Rabbi Judah was very wealthy and greatly revered in Rome.

During Ahab's reign, Moab, which had been conquered by his father, remained tributary ; while Judah, with whose king, Jehoshaphat, he was allied by marriage, was probably his vassal.

David, who was accepted as king by Judah alone, was meanwhile reigning at Hebron, and for some time war was carried on between the two parties.

Amos was a prophet during the reign of Jeroboam ben Joash ( Jeroboam II ), ruler of Israel from 793 BC to 753 BC, and the reign of Uzziah, King of Judah, at a time when both kingdoms ( Israel in the North and Judah in the South ) were peaking in prosperity.

# Abijah ( king ) of the Kingdom of Judah, also known as Abijam ( אבים ' aḄiYaM " My Father is Yam "), who was son of Rehoboam and succeeded him on the throne of Judah.

In the traditional literature he is referred to almost exclusively as Rav, " the Master ", ( both his contemporaries and posterity recognizing in him a master ), just as his teacher, Judah I, was known simply as Rabbi.

His father, Aibo, was a brother of Chiyya, who lived in Palestine, and was a highly esteemed scholar in the collegiate circle of the patriarch Judah I.

While Judah I was still living, Rav, having been duly ordained as teacher — though not without certain restrictions ( Sanhedrin 5a )— returned to Babylonia, where he at once began a career that was destined to mark an epoch in the development of Babylonian Judaism.

Samuel, another disciple of Judah I, at the same time brought to the academy at Nehardea a high degree of prosperity ; in fact, it was at the school of Rav that Jewish learning in Babylonia found its permanent home and center.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia on David descendant Jehoash of Judah: In Rabbinical Literature: As the extermination of the male descendants of David was a divine retribution for the extermination of the priests because of David ( comp.

When David ascended the throne of Judah, Abiathar was appointed High Priest ( 1 Chr.

King Joash of Judah was recorded as being assassinated by his own servants, Joab assassinated Absalom, King David's son and King Sennacherib of Assyria was assassinated by his own sons.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

In the early 6th century Judah rebelled against Babylon and was destroyed.

According to the book, the Prophet Jeremiah was a son of a priest from Anatot in the land of Benjamin, who lived in the last years of the Kingdom of Judah just prior to, during, and immediately after the siege of Jerusalem, culminating in the destruction of Solomon's Temple and the raiding of the city by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

Isaiah's warning that Judah would meet the same fate as Israel was ignored.

A story similar in character, and obviously older in date, is the one alluded to in 2 Maccabees 1: 18 et seq according to which the relighting of the altar fire by Nehemiah was due to a miracle which occurred on the 25th of Kislev, and which appears to be given as the reason for the selection of the same date for the rededication of the altar by Judah Maccabee.

Solomon ( Šlomo ;, also colloquially: ; Solomōn ), according to the Book of Kings and the Book of Chronicles, a King of Israel and according to the Talmud one of the 48 prophets, is identified as the son of David, also called Jedidiah ( Hebrew ) in 2 Samuel 12: 25, and is described as the third king of the United Monarchy, and the final king before the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah split ; following the split his patrilineal descendants ruled over Judah alone.

* Rabbi Yehudah ha-Nasi or Judah haNasi, Talmudic scholar ( according to Jewish tradition, he was born the same day Rabbi Akiva died a martyr's death )

* 740s BC-Isaiah, biblical prophet & advisor to the kings of Judah ( according to the Bible ).

(...) The hope was that with Kosovo in flames NATO could intervene ..." According to Tim Judah, KLA representatives had already met with American, British, and Swiss intelligence agencies in 1996, and possibly " several years earlier " and according to The Sunday Times, " American intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army before NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia ".

* Malachi of Judah, prophet ( according to Bible )

According to the Books of Chronicles chapter 9 line 2, the Israelites, who took part in The Return to Zion are from the Tribe of Judah alongside the Tribe of Simeon that was absorbed into it, the Tribe of Benjamin, the Tribe of Levi ( Levites and Priests ) alongside the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, which according to the Book of Kings 2 Chapter 7 were exiled by the Assyrians ( The Biblical scholars Umberto Cassuto and Elia Samuele Artom claim these two tribes ' names to be a reference to the remant of all Ten Tribes that was not exiled and absorbed into the Judean population ).

For according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah ; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to the abominination, altars to burn incense to the Ba ‘ al.

However, according to the Book of Ezra, Zerubbabel is the governor of Judah and he laid the foundation for the Temple.

Shebna () was " treasurer over the house " ( meaning comptroller or governor of the palace ) in the reign of king Hezekiah of Judah, according to the Old Testament.

An example is Benhadad (" Son of Hadad "), the king of Aram whom Asa, king of Judah, employed to invade the northern kingdom, Israel, according to.

Scholars have identified Taharqa with Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, who waged war against Sennacherib during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah ( 2 Kings 19: 9 ; Isaiah 37: 9 ) and drove him from his intention of destroying Jerusalem and deporting its inhabitants — a critical action that, according to Henry T. Aubin, has shaped the Western world.

In analyzing, there are five different Hebrew names used to describe five different groups of people involved in the transaction of selling Joseph, according to Rabbi Judah and Rav Huna.

The accounts go on to state that while Judah was trying to remove Jashub's armour from his corpse, nine assistants of Jashub fell upon him in combat, but after Judah killed one, he scared away the others ; nevertheless, Judah killed several members of Jashub's army ( 42 men according to the midrashic Book of Jasher, but 1000 men according to the Testament of Judah ).

Biblical scholars believe Bethlehem, located in the " hill country " of Judah, may be the same as the Biblical Ephrath, which means " fertile ", as there is a reference to it in the Book of Micah as Bethlehem Ephratah.

The Book ( s ) of Kings (-the two books were originally one ) presents a narrative history of ancient Israel and Judah from the death of David to the release of his successor Jehoiachin from imprisonment in Babylon, a period of some 400 years ( c. 960-560 BCE ).

The editors / authors of the Deuteronomistic history cite a number of sources, including ( for example ) a " Book of the Acts of Solomon " and, frequently, the " Annals of the Kings of Judah " and a separate book, " Chronicles of the Kings of Israel ".

Most modern day biblical scholars assert that the Book of Lamentations was written by one or more authors in Judah, shortly after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC ; and was penned as a response to Babylonian Exile, the intense suffering of the people of Judah, and the complete and utter destruction of Jerusalem.

The theological views that led to its author ( s ) writing the Book of Lamentations emanated from the cultural and religious attitudes of the people of Judah in the 6th and 7th centuries BC and was probably also influenced by non-biblical sources which originated from the cultural and religious attitudes of Judah's neighbors of differing religions.

Deane and J. R. Thomson write this valid conclusion, “ The Book of Obadiah is occupied with one subject – the punishment of Edom for its cruel and unbrotherly love conduct towards Judah ...” One can link this idea of punishment to one of the major prophets “ Ezekiel ” who “... interprets the exile to Babylon and the destruction of Jerusalem as deserved punishments for the sins of those who themselves committed them .” Verses 3-7 in Obadiah explain to the reader the reason for the punishment theme, “ Confidence in one ’ s power, intelligence, allies, or the topographical features of one ’ s territory is often mentioned as an attribute of those who foolishly confront the Lord and are consequently punished .” Although destruction is vital to understanding Obadiah, it is of note to understand the destruction being a consequence of action.

The superscription of the Book of Zephaniah attributes its authorship to “ Zephaniah son of Cushi son of Gedaliah son of Amariah son of Hezekiah, in the days of King Josiah son of Amon of Judah ” ( 1: 1, NRSV ).

Since 1830 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has identified the Book of Mormon as the " record of the stick of Ephraim " () while the stick of Judah is identified with the Bible.

Sayce and other scholars also mention that Judah and the Hittites were never enemies in the Hebrew texts ; in the Book of Kings, they supplied the Israelites with cedar, chariots, and horses, as well as being a friend and allied to Abraham in the Book of Genesis.

It is stated in the first verse of the Book of Isaiah that he prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah ( or Azariah ), Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah ().

Martin and others have argued that the arrangement of the tribes around the Tabernacle ( reported in the Book of Numbers ) corresponded to the order of the Zodiac, with Judah, Reuben, Ephraim, and Dan representing the middle signs of Leo, Aquarius, Taurus, and Scorpio, respectively.

This may be the same Achbor who is mentioned as the father of Elnathan in the Book of Jeremiah 26: 20-23, and who lived in the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah.

In the Book of Judges ( 1: 4-7 ), Adoni-Bezek, ( simply " lord of Bezek "), was a Canaanite king who, having subdued seventy of the chiefs that were around him, was attacked by the armies of Judah and Simeon.

In the lists of cities of the Israelites by tribe given in the Book of Joshua, Ziklag appears both as a town belonging to the Tribe of Judah () and as a town belonging to the Tribe of Simeon ().

Zerah the Cushite, is an individual mentioned by the Book of Chronicles as having invaded the Kingdom of Judah with an enormous army, in the days of Asa.

According to the Book of Genesis, Zerah was the son of Tamar and of Judah, and was the twin of Pharez.

Simeon is listed in the Book of Joshua, elsewhere in the same Book these towns are ascribed to Judah ; some textual scholars view the Book of Joshua as being spliced together from several different source texts, in this particular case, the lists of towns being different documents, from different periods to each other.