* Er ( biblical person ), the eldest son of Judah in the Biblical Book of Genesis

Simon's eldest sons, Mattathias and Judah, were also murdered.

The inscription seems to parallel an episode in: Jehoram of Israel makes an alliance with Jehoshaphat king of Judah and an unnamed king of Edom ( south of Judah ) to put down his rebellious vassal Mesha ; the three kings have the best of the campaign until Mesha, in desperation, sacrifices his eldest son ; the sacrifice turns the tide, " there came great wrath against Israel ", and Mesha is apparently left victorious.

In the Biblical Book of Genesis, Er ( " awake ; roused "; ) was the eldest son of Judah, and is described as marrying Tamar ; According to the text, Yahweh killed Er because he was wicked, although it doesn't give any further details.

** Judah Leon Abravanel, also Leon Hebreo or Leo Hebraeus ( c. 1460 – c. 1535 ), was a European Jewish physician, poet and philosopher, author of the " Dialogues of Love ", the eldest son of Don Isaac Abravanel.

The narrative goes on to state that when Judah ( on behalf of the other brothers ) begged Joseph not to enslave Benjamin and instead enslave him, since enslavement of Benjamin would break Jacob's heart.

Judah Maccabee and his brothers destroyed overwhelming forces, and rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem.

In return for his adherence to God ’ s discipline and speaking God ’ s words, Jeremiah was attacked by his own brothers, beaten and put into the stocks by a priest and false prophet, imprisoned by the king, threatened with death, thrown into a cistern by Judah ’ s officials, and opposed by a false prophet.

'" God ’ s personal message to Jeremiah, “ Attack you they will, overcome you they can ’ t ,” was fulfilled many times in the Biblical narrative, Jeremiah was attacked by his own brothers, beaten and put into the stocks by a priest and false prophet, imprisoned by the king, threatened with death, thrown into a cistern by Judah ’ s officials, and opposed by a false prophet.

The Van Halen brothers continued writing at 5150 studios, Gary Cherone recorded an album and toured with new band Tribe of Judah.

It is first mentioned ( Genesis 37: 17 ) in connection with the history of Joseph where, at the suggestion of Judah, the brothers sold Joseph to the Ishmaelite merchants ( Gen. 37: 17 ).

The name Maccabee is often used as a synonym for the entire Hasmonean Dynasty, but the Maccabees proper were Judah Maccabee and his four brothers.

The text of the biblical story is muddled over who sold Joseph into slavery-which of the brothers, Reuben or Judah, and whether he was sold to Midianite traders or Ishmaelite traders.

The first group identified, are Joseph's brothers when Judah brings up the idea of selling Joseph in verses 26 and 27.

After identifying these Hebrew names, Rabbi Judah claims that Joseph was sold four times: First his brothers sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites ( Yishma ' elîm ), then the Ishmaelites sold him to the Midianite traders ( ʼnāshîm midyanîm sōĥrîm ), the Midianite traders to the Medanites ( m ‘ danîm ), and the Medanites into Egypt.

Judah is the fourth son of the patriarch Jacob and his first wife, Leah: his full brothers are Reuben, Simeon and Levi ( all older ), and Issachar and Zebulun ( younger ), and he has six half brothers.

Judah, the strongest of the brothers, steps up and says that instead of killing their brother they should sell him to the Ishmaelites and so the brothers did exactly that.

" Similarly, J. P. Fokkelman notes that the " extra attention " for Judah in chapter 38, " sets him up for his major role as the brothers ' spokesman in Genesis 44.

Classical rabbinical sources refer to the passage "... a ruler came from Judah ", from, to imply that Judah was the leader of his brothers, terming him the king.

This passage also describes Judah as the strongest of his brothers in which rabbinical literature portray him as having had extraordinary physical strength, able to shout for over 400 parasangs, able to crush iron into dust by his mouth, and with hair that stiffened so much, when he became angry, that it pierced his clothes.

Since rabbinical sources held Judah to have been the leader of his brothers, these sources also hold him responsible for this deception, even if it was not Judah himself who brought the coat to Jacob.

Even if Judah had been trying to save Joseph, the classical rabbinical sources still regard him negatively for it ; these sources argue that, as the leader of the brothers, Judah should have made more effort, and carried Joseph home to Jacob on his ( Judah's ) own shoulders.

These sources argue that Judah's brothers, after witnessing Jacob's grief at the loss of Joseph, deposed and excommunicated Judah, as the brothers held Judah entirely responsible, since they would have brought Joseph home if Judah had asked them to do so.

God therefore breaks the kingdom in two, with David's line reigning in the southern kingdom of Judah with a separate kingdom of Israel in the north.

The theological bias is seen in the way it judges each king of Israel on the basis of whether he recognises the authority of the temple in Jerusalem ( none do, and therefore all are " evil "), and each king of Judah on the basis of whether he destroys the " high places " ( rivals to the Temple in Jerusalem ); it gives only passing mention to important and successful kings like Omri and Jeroboam II and totally ignores one of the most significant events in ancient Israel's history, the battle of Qarqar.

The judgment of the Lord will descend on Judah and Jerusalem as a punishment for the awful degeneracy in religious life ( 1: 4-7a ); it will extend to all classes of the people ( 1: 7b-13 ), and will be attended with all the horrors of a frightful catastrophe ( 1: 14-18 ); therefore, repent and seek the Lord ( 2: 1-3 ).

The shorter version was also used by most of the later commentators, such as Judah b. Barzillai and Nahmanides, and it was, therefore, published in the ordinary editions.

At this point, Judah is portrayed as viewing Tamar to be cursed, and is therefore reluctant to give his remaining and youngest son Shelah, to her.

Judah and his school, therefore, though not the first ones, distinguished between the Divine Being ( ' Eẓem ) and the Divine Majesty ( Kavod ).

Lacking the philosophic training common among the Spanish Jews – although he was acquainted with Ibn Ezra, Saadia, some of the Karaites, and perhaps Maimonides – Judah did not reduce his mystic-theosophical theories to a system, and they are therefore difficult to survey.

In the prophets of the 7th and 6th centuries BC, the word bamot connotes " seat of heathenish or idolatrous worship "; and the historians of the period apply the term in this opprobrious sense not only to places sacred to other gods but to the old holy places of Yahweh in the cities and villages of Judah, which, in their view, had been illegitimate since the building of Solomon's temple, and therefore not really seats of the worship of Yahweh ; even the most pious kings of Judah are censured for tolerating their existence.

As it is with all nations that rise up against the kingdom of God, even Israel and Judah will not be exempt from the judgment of God because of their idolatry and unjust ways.

# The remainder of 2 Chronicles ( chapters 10 – 36 ) is a chronicle of the kings of Judah to the time of the Babylonian exile, concluding with the call by Cyrus the Great for the exiles to return to their land.

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 ).

The vision then embraces the fall of Jerusalem to the hands of foreign invaders and God ’ s anger against Edom for taking advantage of the Jews of Judah during their plight, thus sealing their doom.

* A Covenant lawsuit ( 6: 1 – 5 ): Yahweh accuses Israel ( the people of Judah ) of breaking the covenant through their lack of justice and honesty, after the pattern of the kings of Israel ( northern kingdom )

Although the prophets urged the people of Judah and Israel to see their exile as punishment for failing to uphold their covenant with Yahweh, it was not long after they had been restored to the land and to Temple worship that the people's commitment to their God began, once again, to wane.

Habakkuk addresses his concerns over the fact that God will use the evil Babylonian empire to execute judgment on Judah for their sins.

There are still others who maintain that after Nebuchadnezzar had carried the beautiful youths of Judah to Babylon, he had them executed and their bodies mutilated, because their beauty had entranced the Babylonian women, and that it was these youths whom Ezekiel called back to life.

A second group of 5, 000, led by Ezra and Nehemiah, returned to Judah in 456 BCE although non-Jews wrote to Cyrus to try to prevent their return.

The Iron Age Kingdom of Israel ( Samaria ) | kingdom of Israel ( blue ) and kingdom of Judah ( tan ), with their neighbours ( 8th century BCE )

“ But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen .”- Hosea 1: 7 in his sermon NO.

Continuing their journey to Egypt, when they approached in proximity, Israel sent his son Judah ahead to find out where the caravans were to stop.

* The Tribe of Judah, the Hebrew tribe whose members regarded the above as their eponymous ancestor

With their backing, Judah lobbied for federal authorization and government financing of the transcontinental railroad in Washington, D. C ..

The Kingdom of Judah came to an end in 587 BC when Babylonian forces under Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem, and removed most of its population to their own lands.

The Rastafari seek to validate a link between Ethiopia and Israel, pointing to the title Lion of Judah, and their goal is to repatriate to Mount Zion, that is, Africa.

Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

Like the other tribes of the kingdom of Judah, the tribe of Judah is entirely absent from the ancient Song of Deborah, rather than present but described as unwilling to assist in the battle between Israelites and their enemy.

() Some twenty years after the breakup of the United Monarchy, Abijah, the second king of Kingdom of Judah, defeated Jeroboam of Israel and took back the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah and Ephron, with their surrounding villages.