Bible Verses About Judah

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?

Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.

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.

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 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.

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

And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the Lord: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.

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

And the Lord said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

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

Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,

For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the Lord: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.

And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord.

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.

But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.

Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the Lord our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.

And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him.

Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

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.

And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

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

But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;

And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.

And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjath–arba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof,

And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs,

And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

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:

And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.

In those days the Lord began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.

The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

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