Job 15:26

For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

This is for Judah. He said, “Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries.”

After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.

Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

“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.

When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah,

First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.

These are the families of Judah according to those who were counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.

“Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.”

When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.” They came near, and put their feet on their necks.

The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, “Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?” Yahweh said, “Judah first.”

(and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):

So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

Asa had an army of three hundred thousand out of Judah who bore bucklers and spears, and two hundred eighty thousand out of Benjamin who bore shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor.

He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.

He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.

Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes.”

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.

I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

All the nations surrounded me, but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off.

But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

“Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

“For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?” says the Lord Yahweh.

while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

“Son of man, tell her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.’

When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs.”

“ ‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “ ‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says Yahweh.

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.

from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.

One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can’t see, hear, or walk.

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.

This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’