City Of Judah

And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the City of Arba the father of Anak, which City is Hebron.

And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a City of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.

And they gave them the City of Arba the father of Anak, which City is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.

• Jerusalem
• Siege

Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the City on fire.

And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the City of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the City was called Hormah.

And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the City which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the City, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the City, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the City.

• Burial

Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the City told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.

And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this City Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the City of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,

And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced City: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.

And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, City by City,

And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the City of Judah.

And in every several City of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

Now after this he built a wall without the City of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his City;

And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the City of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.

These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his City;

And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer: and Judah the son of Senuah was second over the City.

• Salvation

In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong City; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

• Iron

For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced City, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

Then shall there enter into the gates of this City kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this City shall remain for ever.

Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this City, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this City from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this City into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

• Fortifications
• Armies

For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this City, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this City into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this City; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the City by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the City full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the City, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.

And the gates of the City shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.