. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . to death-;and afterward his conduct in Egypt, in inter-ceding for Benjamin, was in every respectpraiseworthy. At the descent into Egypt,Judah had three sons living: the two grand-sons afterward distinguished as heads of fam-ilies in the tribe were probably not then The prophetic blessing pronounced by Ja-cob augured a splendid destiny to the de-scendants of this son. Though not the eld-est, yet the royalty of I
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . to death-;and afterward his conduct in Egypt, in inter-ceding for Benjamin, was in every respectpraiseworthy. At the descent into Egypt,Judah had three sons living: the two grand-sons afterward distinguished as heads of fam-ilies in the tribe were probably not then The prophetic blessing pronounced by Ja-cob augured a splendid destiny to the de-scendants of this son. Though not the eld-est, yet the royalty of Israel was to be withJudah, and his imperial power and the pro-ductiveness of his territory, in wine and aspasturage, were At the first census in the wilderness thetribe numbered 74,600; and though the earlyleaders of Israel, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, wereof other families, yet Judah as a tribe tookalways the foremost place, marched at thehead, and mustered under their standard i Gen. xxxvii., 26-28; xlii.,3-14; xliv., 14-34; xlvi.,12.—2 Gen. xxix., 35: xxvii., 26-28; xliii., 3-14; xliv.,13-34; xlvi., 12; xlix., S-12; 1 Chron. v., 2. See Shi- LOIi. JUDAH 534 JUDAH. the largest host. In the second census Ju-dah had multiplied to 76,500. The inspiredbenediction of Moses was short, yet it never-theless indicated the increasing strength ofthis tribe. Accordingly, we find a nobleinheritance provided for Judah. Its terri-tory was in average length about forty-fivemiles, with a breadth of fifty, and compre-hended four regions — the south, towardthe coast of Edom; the valley, plain, orfiftefelah, the tract lying between the centralhill-country and the. Mediterranean ; themountains; and the wilderness, the slopesand sunken region adjoining the Dead portion of this territory was afterward deducted for Simeon. Dan, too, had someplaces previously allotted to Judah. In thelot of this tribe were one hundred and fifteencities. They were divided into—the utter-most cities, ci
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