1. Did Judah Remain Desolate?

2. Born of the tribe of Judah

3. Beyond lay the wilderness of Judah.

4. Isaiah Foretells the Desolation of Judah

5. Good news proclaimed for Judah (15)

6. Eʹphra·im will not be jealous of Judah,

7. Judah is likened to a worthless vine.

8. By the time the Assyrians had overrun Judah and were threatening Jerusalem, the kingdom of Judah had a new king.

9. Judah builds altars all over the land

10. O Judah, celebrate your festivals.” —Nahum 1:15.

11. What conditions in Christendom parallel those in Judah?

12. Judah practices immoral worship under every luxuriant tree

13. Arranged topically, it was promulgated under the authority of Rabbi Judah Ha-nasi (“the Patriarch”), around 200 CE.

14. Isaiah’s teaching sounded to Judah like foreign babble.

15. Go from there into the land of Judah.”

16. Babylonian document that mentions King Jehoiachin of Judah

17. Judah is truly in a broken-down state.

18. His father, King Ahaz of Judah, evidently worshiped Molech.

19. Abijam, Asa, Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram succeed Rehoboam in Judah.

20. His heartfelt desire is that Judah return to him.

21. Actually, it summarized what was discussed and taught in the rabbinic academies during the period of Judah ha-Nasi.

22. What is “the screen of Judah” that is removed?

23. Asa implemented religious reform in the kingdom of Judah.

24. 4 “I will stretch out my hand against Judah

25. 5 Out of the tribe of Judah 12,000 sealed;

26. Judah, the southern kingdom, also struggled with Baal worship.

27. 8 And the screen* of Judah will be removed.

28. 6 I will make the house of Judah superior,

29. 2 Judah has no one to blame but herself.

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31. Achan of the tribe of Judah sinned while invading Jericho.

32. □ What was the religious situation in Judah in Zephaniah’s day?

33. 13 When Eʹphra·im saw his sickness, and Judah his ulcer,

34. When did the land of Judah become desolated and unworked?

35. 9 Consider again the desolated land of Judah and Israel.

36. Will Judah learn a lesson from the discipline she receives?

37. An accomplice in the slaying of King Jehoash of Judah.

38. And out of Judah the one to inherit my mountains;+

39. 5 Declare it in Judah, and proclaim it in Jerusalem.

40. And the streams of Judah will all flow with water.

41. Unlike Sodom and Gomorrah, Judah will not be forever uninhabited

42. In Isaiah’s day, Israel and Judah do exactly the opposite.

43. Judah ha-Nasi headed both his own academy and the Sanhedrin, first at Bet She’arim and later at Sepphoris in Galilee.

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45. How are the people of Judah suffering because of rejecting Jehovah?

46. Judah lost God’s favor because of mimicking her ungodly neighboring nations.

47. 13 The aenvy of Ephraim also shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not benvy cJudah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

48. (b) How will the Assyrian respond to peace initiatives from Judah?

49. To make the cities of Judah desolate, a lair of jackals.

50. 10, 11. (a) Why did Jehovah not consent to forgive Judah?

51. Chart: Prophets and Kings of Judah and of Israel (Part 1)

52. Now, Assyria’s military machine is threatening the capital city of Judah.

53. Jehovah has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah in the winepress.

54. 3 Judah has gone into exile+ under affliction and harsh slavery.

55. How does Jehovah address the wicked generation of Judah, and why?

56. Achan of the tribe of Judah was identified as the offender.

57. Because of its high elevation, Judah was also an excellent refuge.

58. Judah was given a resounding victory. —2 Chronicles 14:2-12.

59. This new spiritual framework was outlined in the Mishnah, compiled by Judah ha-Nasi by the beginning of the third century C.E.

60. 4 The sons of Judah were Peʹrez,+ Hezʹron,+ Carʹmi, Hur,+ and Shoʹbal.

61. When does Israel meet her demise, but why should Judah not gloat?

62. 9 What, though, will be the fate of faithless ones in Judah?

63. In this context, “Israel” refers to the two-tribe kingdom of Judah.

64. But Jehovah protected the people of Judah, the soldiers, and the priests.

65. 6 Unrighteousness and violence in Judah find a striking parallel in Christendom.

66. For Judah there would be ‘a hurrying of Jehovah’s day very much.’

67. 17 “The sin of Judah is written down with an iron stylus.

68. 19 Jehovah would also smelt the people of Judah in a furnace.

69. And in the daughter of Judah he makes mourning and lamentation abound.

70. 17 At first, the people of Judah were in a desperate plight.

71. * The “stick of Judah” and the “stick of Joseph” will become one.

72. David ruled over Judah from Hebron for seven and a half years.

73. + 12 Judah was defeated by Israel, so each one fled to his home.

74. Josiah’s reign was marked by tremendous religious reforms in the land of Judah.

75. In 607 B.C.E., the Babylonians conquered the southern two-tribe kingdom of Judah.

76. Third, Jerusalem, the capital of the kingdom of Judah, was “full of corruption.”

77. In ancient Judah of Isaiah’s day, haughty women decked themselves with many ornaments.

78. So Judah was partially accountable for the error of the “house of Israel.”

79. (Isaiah 57:11) Jehovah has kept silent, not inflicting immediate punishment upon Judah.

80. Judah was wrong in his dealings with his widowed daughter-in-law, Tamar.