Judah

Intercedes for Joseph's life when his brothers were about to kill him, and proposes that they sell him to the Ishmaelites

• Genesis 37:26

  And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

• Genesis 37:27

  Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.

Takes two wives

• Genesis 38:1–6

  And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her. And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er. …

Lives at Chezib

• Genesis 38:5

  And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

His incest with his daughter-in-law

• Genesis 38:12–26

  And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep. And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife. …

Goes down into Egypt for corn (grain)

• Genesis 43:1–10

  And the famine was sore in the land. And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. …

• Genesis 44:14–34

  And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground. And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine? And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found. …

• Genesis 46:28

  And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

Prophetic benediction of his father upon

• Genesis 49:8–12

  Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. …

The ancestor of Jesus

• Matthew 1:2

  Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;

• Matthew 1:3

  And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;

• Revelation 5:5

  And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

Prophecies concerning

• Genesis 49:10

  The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

Enrollment of the military forces of

At Sinai

• Numbers 1:26

  Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

• Numbers 1:27

  Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

• Numbers 2:4

  And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

At Bezek

• 1 Samuel 11:8

  And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

• 2 Samuel 24:9

  And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

On the plain of Moab

• Numbers 26:22

  These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.

Place of, in encampments and the march

• Numbers 2:3

  And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.

• Numbers 2:9

  All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.

• Numbers 10:14

  In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

By whom commanded

• Numbers 2:3

  And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.

Moses' benediction upon

• Deuteronomy 33:7

  And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.

Commissioned by God to lead in the conquest of the promised land

• Judges 1:1–3

  Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand. And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.

• Judges 1:4–21

  And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men. And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites. But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. …

Make David king

• 2 Samuel 2:1–11

  And it came to pass after this, that David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron. So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite. And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron. …

• 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 and three years over all Israel and Judah.

Rebuked by David for lukewarmness toward him after Absalom's defeat

• 2 Samuel 19:11–15

  And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house. Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king? And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab. …

Accused by the other tribes of stealing the heart of David

• 2 Samuel 19:41–43

  And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan? And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us any gift? And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

Loyal to David at the time of the insurrection led by Sheba

• 2 Samuel 20:1

  And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

• 2 Samuel 20:2

  So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.

Is accorded the birthright forfeited by Reuben

• 1 Chronicles 5:1

  Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

• 1 Chronicles 5:2

  For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)

• 1 Chronicles 28:4

  Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:

• Psalms 60:7

  Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

Loyal to the house of David at the time of the revolt of the ten tribes

• 1 Kings 12:20

  And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

Inheritance of

• Joshua 18:6

  Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

• Joshua 19:1

  And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.

• Joshua 19:9

  Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.

Joshua 15