“犹大啊，你弟兄们必赞美你；你手必掐住仇敌的颈项；你父亲的儿子们必向你下拜。

犹大啊，你的兄弟必赞美你，你的手必掐住仇敌的颈项，你父亲的儿子要向你下拜。

犹大啊，你的兄弟必赞美你，你的手必掐住仇敌的颈项，你父亲的儿子要向你下拜。

“犹大啊，你的兄弟们必赞美你，你必制服你的仇敌，你父亲的儿子必向你下拜。

犹大啊，你的兄弟们要称赞你；你的手必压住仇敌的颈项；你父亲的众子必向你下拜。

犹大啊，你的兄弟们必称赞你，你的手必压住仇敌的颈项，你父亲的众子必向你下拜。

猶大啊，你弟兄們必讚美你；你手必掐住仇敵的頸項；你父親的兒子們必向你下拜。

猶大啊，你的兄弟必讚美你，你的手必掐住仇敵的頸項，你父親的兒子要向你下拜。

猶大啊，你的兄弟必讚美你，你的手必掐住仇敵的頸項，你父親的兒子要向你下拜。

「猶大啊，你的兄弟們必讚美你，你必制伏你的仇敵，你父親的兒子必向你下拜。

猶大啊，你的兄弟們要稱讚你；你的手必壓住仇敵的頸項；你父親的眾子必向你下拜。

猶大啊，你弟兄們必稱讚你；你的手必掐住你仇敵的脖子；你父親的兒子們必向你下拜。

猶大啊，你的兄弟們必稱讚你，你的手必壓住仇敵的頸項，你父親的眾子必向你下拜。

維汝猶大、兄弟頌揚、爾父之子、伏拜爾前、爾手扼敵之頸、

猶大與、兄弟必頌美爾、爾父之子、伏拜爾前、爾必扼敵之吭。

維爾猶大、兄弟所贊、爾手必扼敵之頸項、爾父之子、必跪拜爾、

“ Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you.

“ Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your enemies will be brought under your control. Your father’s sons will bow down to you.

“ Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down before you.

“ Judah, your brothers will praise you. You will grasp your enemies by the neck. All your relatives will bow before you.

Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you.

“ As for you, Judah, your brothers shall praise you; Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; Your father’s sons shall bow down to you.

“ Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise; Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; Your father’s children shall bow down before you.

Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise: Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; Thy father’s sons shall bow down before thee.

Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you.

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, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father’s sons will bow down before you.

“ Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.

For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests. (niv)

May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.” (niv)

and though Judah was the strongest of his brothers and a ruler came from him, the rights of the firstborn belonged to Joseph)— (niv)

She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said,“ This time I will praise the Lord.” So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children. (niv)

And this he said about Judah:“ Hear, Lord, the cry of Judah; bring him to his people. With his own hands he defends his cause. Oh, be his help against his foes!” (niv)

Joab reported the number of the fighting men to the king: In Israel there were eight hundred thousand able-bodied men who could handle a sword, and in Judah five hundred thousand. (niv)

These were the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was banished from the presence of Saul son of Kish( they were among the warriors who helped him in battle;they were armed with bows and were able to shoot arrows or to sling stones right-handed or left-handed; they were relatives of Saul from the tribe of Benjamin):Ahiezer their chief and Joash the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet the sons of Azmaveth; Berakah, Jehu the Anathothite,and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty warrior among the Thirty, who was a leader of the Thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, Jozabad the Gederathite,Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah and Shephatiah the Haruphite;Elkanah, Ishiah, Azarel, Joezer and Jashobeam the Korahites;and Joelah and Zebadiah the sons of Jeroham from Gedor.Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the wilderness. They were brave warriors, ready for battle and able to handle the shield and spear. Their faces were the faces of lions, and they were as swift as gazelles in the mountains.Ezer was the chief, Obadiah the second in command, Eliab the third,Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,Jeremiah the tenth and Makbannai the eleventh.These Gadites were army commanders; the least was a match for a hundred, and the greatest for a thousand.It was they who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight everyone living in the valleys, to the east and to the west.Other Benjamites and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold.David went out to meet them and said to them,“ If you have come to me in peace to help me, I am ready for you to join me. But if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free from violence, may the God of our ancestors see it and judge you.”Then the Spirit came on Amasai, chief of the Thirty, and he said:“ We are yours, David! We are with you, son of Jesse! Success, success to you, and success to those who help you, for your God will help you.” So David received them and made them leaders of his raiding bands.Some of the tribe of Manasseh defected to David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul.( He and his men did not help the Philistines because, after consultation, their rulers sent him away. They said,“ It will cost us our heads if he deserts to his master Saul.”)When David went to Ziklag, these were the men of Manasseh who defected to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu and Zillethai, leaders of units of a thousand in Manasseh.They helped David against raiding bands, for all of them were brave warriors, and they were commanders in his army.Day after day men came to help David, until he had a great army, like the army of God.These are the numbers of the men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul’s kingdom over to him, as the Lord had said:from Judah, carrying shield and spear— 6,800 armed for battle;from Simeon, warriors ready for battle— 7,100;from Levi— 4,600,including Jehoiada, leader of the family of Aaron, with 3,700 men,and Zadok, a brave young warrior, with 22 officers from his family;from Benjamin, Saul’s tribe— 3,000, most of whom had remained loyal to Saul’s house until then;from Ephraim, brave warriors, famous in their own clans— 20,800;from half the tribe of Manasseh, designated by name to come and make David king— 18,000;from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do— 200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command;from Zebulun, experienced soldiers prepared for battle with every type of weapon, to help David with undivided loyalty— 50,000;from Naphtali— 1,000 officers, together with 37,000 men carrying shields and spears;from Dan, ready for battle— 28,600;from Asher, experienced soldiers prepared for battle— 40,000;and from east of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad and the half- tribe of Manasseh, armed with every type of weapon— 120,000.All these were fighting men who volunteered to serve in the ranks. They came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. All the rest of the Israelites were also of one mind to make David king.The men spent three days there with David, eating and drinking, for their families had supplied provisions for them.Also, their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules and oxen. There were plentiful supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisin cakes, wine, olive oil, cattle and sheep, for there was joy in Israel. (niv)

God is renowned in Judah; in Israel his name is great. (niv)

When they had brought these kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had come with him,“ Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came forward and placed their feet on their necks. (niv)

The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:“ The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever.” (niv)

Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground. (niv)

Then he assembled all Judah and Benjamin and the people from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who had settled among them, for large numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him. (niv)

We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”His brothers said to him,“ Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers.“ Listen,” he said,“ I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said,“ What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?” (niv)

After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the Lord,“ Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?”The Lord answered,“ Judah shall go up; I have given the land into their hands.” (niv)

The Israelites went up to Bethel and inquired of God. They said,“ Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” The Lord replied,“ Judah shall go first.” (niv)

So King Solomon ruled over all Israel.And these were his chief officials: Azariah son of Zadok— the priest;Elihoreph and Ahijah, sons of Shisha— secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud— recorder;Benaiah son of Jehoiada— commander in chief; Zadok and Abiathar— priests;Azariah son of Nathan— in charge of the district governors; Zabud son of Nathan— a priest and adviser to the king;Ahishar— palace administrator; Adoniram son of Abda— in charge of forced labor.Solomon had twelve district governors over all Israel, who supplied provisions for the king and the royal household. Each one had to provide supplies for one month in the year.These are their names: Ben-Hur— in the hill country of Ephraim;Ben-Deker— in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh and Elon Bethhanan;Ben-Hesed— in Arubboth( Sokoh and all the land of Hepher were his);Ben-Abinadab— in Naphoth Dor( he was married to Taphath daughter of Solomon);Baana son of Ahilud— in Taanach and Megiddo, and in all of Beth Shan next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth Shan to Abel Meholah across to Jokmeam;Ben-Geber— in Ramoth Gilead( the settlements of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead were his, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan and its sixty large walled cities with bronze gate bars);Ahinadab son of Iddo— in Mahanaim;Ahimaaz— in Naphtali( he had married Basemath daughter of Solomon);Baana son of Hushai— in Asher and in Aloth;Jehoshaphat son of Paruah— in Issachar;Shimei son of Ela— in Benjamin;Geber son of Uri— in Gilead( the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and the country of Og king of Bashan). He was the only governor over the district.The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore; they ate, they drank and they were happy.And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These countries brought tribute and were Solomon’s subjects all his life.Solomon’s daily provisions were thirty cors of the finest flour and sixty cors of meal,ten head of stall-fed cattle, twenty of pasture-fed cattle and a hundred sheep and goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks and choice fowl.For he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, and had peace on all sides.During Solomon’s lifetime Judah and Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, lived in safety, everyone under their own vine and under their own fig tree.Solomon had four thousand stalls for chariot horses, and twelve thousand horses.The district governors, each in his month, supplied provisions for King Solomon and all who came to the king’s table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.They also brought to the proper place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and the other horses.God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore.Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.He was wiser than anyone else, including Ethan the Ezrahite— wiser than Heman, Kalkol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread to all the surrounding nations.He spoke three thousand proverbs and his songs numbered a thousand and five.He spoke about plant life, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of walls. He also spoke about animals and birds, reptiles and fish.From all nations people came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, sent by all the kings of the world, who had heard of his wisdom. (niv)

Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and went to Jerusalem. (niv)

He stationed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah and put garrisons in Judah and in the towns of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured. (niv)

You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes. (niv)

Their enrollment by families was as follows: From Judah, commanders of units of 1,000: Adnah the commander, with 300,000 fighting men;next, Jehohanan the commander, with 280,000;next, Amasiah son of Zikri, who volunteered himself for the service of the Lord, with 200,000. (niv)

but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance. (niv)

When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron, the king made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel. (niv)

The divisions of the camp of Judah went first, under their standard. Nahshon son of Amminadab was in command. (niv)

Then Judah went up to him and said:“ Pardon your servant, my lord, let me speak a word to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, though you are equal to Pharaoh himself.My lord asked his servants,‘ Do you have a father or a brother?’And we answered,‘ We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’“ Then you said to your servants,‘ Bring him down to me so I can see him for myself.’And we said to my lord,‘ The boy cannot leave his father; if he leaves him, his father will die.’But you told your servants,‘ Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’When we went back to your servant my father, we told him what my lord had said.“ Then our father said,‘ Go back and buy a little more food.’But we said,‘ We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother is with us will we go. We cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’“ Your servant my father said to us,‘ You know that my wife bore me two sons.One of them went away from me, and I said,“ He has surely been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in misery.’“ So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow.Your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father. I said,‘ If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!’“ Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father.” (niv)

Despite false visions concerning you and lying divinations about you, it will be laid on the necks of the wicked who are to be slain, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax. (niv)

The number from the tribe of Judah was 74,600. (niv)

Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men from Judah, equipped with large shields and with spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand from Benjamin, armed with small shields and with bows. All these were brave fighting men. (niv)

You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes.They cried for help, but there was no one to save them— to the Lord, but he did not answer.I beat them as fine as windblown dust; I trampled them like mud in the streets.You have delivered me from the attacks of the people; you have made me the head of nations. People I did not know now serve me, (niv)

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (niv)

Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this. (niv)

He put shields and spears in all the cities, and made them very strong. So Judah and Benjamin were his.The priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel sided with him.The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the Lordwhen he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat and calf idols he had made.Those from every tribe of Israel who set their hearts on seeking the Lord, the God of Israel, followed the Levites to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices to the Lord, the God of their ancestors.They strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon three years, following the ways of David and Solomon during this time. (niv)

Then one of the elders said to me,“ Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.” (niv)

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Zerah( but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. (niv)

These were the clans of Judah; those numbered were 76,500. (niv)

and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. (niv)