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Quotes About Judah

Jesucristo fue el Cordero de Dios, pero también el León de Judá; y de sus rugidos y zarpazos están llenos los Evangelios
~ Juan Manuel de Prada
I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.
~ Judah Friedlander
What kind of man had the Messiah to be, since through him the sceptre was to remain for ever in Judah, but at his coming the sceptre was to be removed from Judah? To ensure that seeing they should not see and hearing they should not hear
~ Blaise Pascal
He knew all the prophecies. He had studied them. That small town cut out virtually all claimants to Messiah. But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
~ Brian Godawa
Judah is a lion's cub; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes. And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples." And then Sheshai said, "Lion and scepter. The kingly seed we seek is the line of Judah within Israel." Talmai said, "One out of twelve tribes. But that is still not as specific as we require.
~ Brian Godawa
tradition of liberation from Egypt, under a lawgiver and deliverer named Moses. We are called Jews, and our heritage Judaism, because in the political decline and fall of our nation the tribe which held out longest and became the surviving remnant in exile predicted by the Torah was named Judah.
~ Herman Wouk
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
~ George Eliot
And the patriarch Jacob declared in his last will and testament that the tribe of his son Judah would rule over them all
~ Israel Finkelstein
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. "You are a lion's cub, O Judah; you return from the prey, my son. "Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? "The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his.
~ Gilbert Morris
All this national decay, all this weakening of the state, this obviously imminent subjection of Judah to Babylon, were, it seemed to Jeremiah, Yahveh's hand laid upon the Jews in punishment for their sins.
~ Will Durant
Judah were settled in Babylonia in 586, where they developed new rituals that allowed them to survive the absence of the Temple. In fact, because of their rapid absorption of Babylonian culture, only a minority of the exiles opted to return to Jerusalem when afforded the opportunity
~ David N. Myers
Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.
~ Bible
To love Christ is to deal with the incongruity of One who is hailed as the Lion of Judah but who appears as a slain Lamb.
~ Unknown
Like David uniting Judah and Israel, but to no avail, Bright's textbook facilitated an uneasy union between theology and history that has not held among most historians today. Two histories, one biblical (Geschichte) and the other the product of archaeology and sociological reconstruction (Historie), have for the time being seemingly gone their separate ways.40 For Bright, however, genuine history and genuine theology, as evidenced in Israel's faith, were one and the same.
~ John Bright
The only way to revive Temple worship is through repentance. The men of Judah must give up their idolatry and turn their hearts back to God.
~ Lynn Austin
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.
~ Bible
And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.
~ Genesis 29:35
About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.
~ Genesis 38:1
There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.
~ Genesis 38:2
So she conceived and gave birth to a son, and Judah named him Er.
~ Genesis 38:3
Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
~ Genesis 38:6
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brotherís wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
~ Genesis 38:8
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your fatherís house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her fatherís house.
~ Genesis 38:11
After a long time Judahís wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
~ Genesis 38:12