Fourth son of Jacob · Patriarchs, c. 1800 BC

Judah in the Bible

Judah proposes selling Joseph, is confronted by Tamar over his own failure, and later offers himself in Benjamin's place. Jacob's blessing gives his tribe the sceptre, and both David and Jesus are reckoned in his line.

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Verses mentioning Judah

832 occurrences across 757 verses in the King James Version.

  1. 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.

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  2. 1 Kings 1:9

    And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants: Enrogel: or, the well Rogel

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  3. 1 Kings 1:35

    Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.

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  4. 1 Kings 2:32

    And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

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  5. 1 Kings 4:20

    Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

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  6. 1 Kings 4:25

    And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. safely: Heb. confidently

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  7. 1 Kings 12:17

    But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

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  8. 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.

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  9. 1 Kings 12:21

    And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

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  10. 1 Kings 12:23

    Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

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  11. 1 Kings 12:27

    If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.

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  12. 1 Kings 12:32

    And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. offered: or, went up to the altar, etc sacrificing: or, to sacrifice

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  13. 1 Kings 13:1

    And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. burn: or, offer

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  14. 1 Kings 13:12

    And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.

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  15. 1 Kings 13:14

    And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.

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  16. 1 Kings 13:21

    And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,

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  17. 1 Kings 14:21

    And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

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  18. 1 Kings 14:22

    And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

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  19. 1 Kings 14:29

    Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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  20. 1 Kings 15:1

    Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

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  21. 1 Kings 15:7

    Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

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  22. 1 Kings 15:9

    And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.

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  23. 1 Kings 15:17

    And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

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  24. 1 Kings 15:22

    Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. exempted: Heb. free

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  25. 1 Kings 15:23

    The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

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