Kingdom of Judah
The Kingdom of Judah (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה Yəhūdā; Akkadian: 𒅀𒌑𒁲 Ya'údi; Imperial Aramaic: 𐤁𐤉𐤕𐤃𐤅𐤃 Bēyt Dāwīḏ, 'House of David') was a Hebrew-speaking kingdom of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. Centered in the highlands of Judea, the landlocked kingdom's capital was Jerusalem.
Quotes
[edit]- His eye survay’d the dark Idolatries
Of alienated Judah.- John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I
- The wild gazelle on Judah’s hills
Exulting yet may bound,
And drink from all the living rills
That gush on holy ground;
Its airy step and glorious eye
May glance in tameless transport by:—A step as fleet, an eye more bright,
Hath Judah witnessed there;
And o’er her scenes of lost delight
Inhabitants more fair.
The cedars wave on Lebanon,
But Judah’s statelier maids are gone!More blest each palm that shades those plains
Than Israel’s scattered race;
For, taking root, it there remains
In solitary grace:
It cannot quit its place of birth,
It will not live in other earth.But we must wander witheringly
In other lands to die;
And where our fathers’ ashes be,
Our own may never lie:
Our temple hath not left a stone,
And Mockery sits on Salem’s throne.- Lord Byron, "The Wild Gazelle", Hebrew Melodies (1815)
- Not coldly mute the harp of Judah hung!
- Did none perchance of Judah’s faithful line
Read the high teaching of each heav’n-sent sign? - Could wrath divine
Be dealt on Judah by no hand but thine?- John Burgon, Petra (1845, 1846)
Bible
[edit]- “The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark;
- I will pour out My wrath on them like water.
- Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment,
- Because he willingly walked by human precept.
- Therefore I will be to Ephraim like a moth,
- And to the house of Judah like rottenness.
- “When Ephraim saw his sickness,
- And Judah saw his wound,
- Then Ephraim went to Assyria
- And sent to King Jareb;
- Yet he cannot cure you,
- Nor heal you of your wound.
- For I will be like a lion to Ephraim,
- And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
- Book of Hosea 5:10-14 NKJV.
- And she conceived again and bore a daughter. Then God said to him:
“Call her name Lo-Ruhamah,
- For I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel,
- But I will utterly take them away.
- Yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah,
- Will save them by the Lord their God,
- And will not save them by bow,
- Nor by sword or battle,
- By horses or horsemen.”
- Book of Hosea 1:6-7 NKJV.
- Thus says the Lord:
- “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four,
- I will not turn away its punishment,
- Because they have despised the law of the Lord,
- And have not kept His commandments.
- Their lies lead them astray,
- Lies which their fathers followed.
- But I will send a fire upon Judah,
- And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
- Book of Amos 2:4-5 NKJV.
- they were all great sinners,
- for they abandoned the law of the Most High;
- so the kings of Judah came to an end.
- Book of Sirach 49:4 NCB.
