•How long observed.—Though very little is said about its observance in the Bible history of the
Jews, yet it is referred to, and was no doubt observed with more or less faithfulness, till the
Babylonish captivity.—ED.)
Jucal
(powerful), son of Shelemiah. (Jeremiah 38:1)
Juda
(praised).
•Son of Joseph, in the genealogy of Christ. (Luke 3:30)
•Son of Joanna, or Hananiah. [Hananiah, 8] (Luke 3:26) He seems to be certainly the same person
as Abiud in (Matthew 1:13)
•One of the Lord’s brethren, enumerated in (Mark 6:3)
•The patriarch Judah. Sus. 56; (Luke 3:33; Hebrews 7:14; Revelation 5:5; 7:5)
Judaea, Or Judea
(from Judah), a territorial division which succeeded to the overthrow of the ancient landmarks
of the tribes of Israel and Judah in their respective captivities. The word first occurs (Daniel 5:13)
Authorized Version “Jewry,” and the first mention of the “province of Judea” is in the book of
Ezra, (Ezra 5:8) It is alluded to in (Nehemiah 11:3) (Authorized Version “Judah”). In the apocryphal
books the word “province” is dropped, and throughout them and the New Testament the expressions
are “the land of Judea,” “Judea.” In a wide and more improper sense, the term Judea was sometimes
extended to the whole country of the Canaanites, its ancient inhabitants; and even in the Gospels
we read of the coasts of Judea “beyond Jordan.” (Matthew 19:1; Mark 10:1) Judea was, in strict
language, the name of the third district, west of the Jordan and south of Samaria. It was made a
portion of the Roman province of Syria upon the deposition of Archelaus, the ethnarch of Judea,
in A.D. 6, and was governed by a procurator, who was subject to the governor of Syria.
Judah
(praised, celebrated), the fourth son of Jacob and the fourth of Leah. (B.C. after 1753.) Of
Judah’s personal character more traits are preserved than of any other of the patriarchs, with the
exception of Joseph, whose life he in conjunction with Reuben saved. (Genesis 37:26-28) During
the second visit to Egypt for corn it was Judah who understood to be responsible for the safety of
Benjamin, ch. (Genesis 43:3-10) and when, through Joseph’s artifice, the brothers were brought
back to the palace, he is again the leader and spokesman of the band. So too it is Judah who is sent
before Jacob to smooth the way for him in the land of Goshen. ch. (Genesis 46:28) This ascendancy
over his brethren is reflected in the last words addressed to him by his father. The families of Judah
occupy a position among the tribes similar to that which their progenitor had taken among the
patriarchs. The numbers of the tribe at the census at Sinai were 74,600. (Numbers 1:26,27) On the
borders of the promised land they were 76,500. (Genesis 26:22) The boundaries and contents of
the territory allotted to Judah are narrated at great length, and with greater minuteness than the
others, in (Joshua 15:20-63) The north boundary, for the most part coincident with the south
boundary of Benjamin, began at the embouchure of the Jordan and ended on the west at Jabneel
on the coast of the Mediterranean, four miles south of Joppa. On the east the Dead Sea, and on the
west the Mediterranean, formed the boundaries. The southern line is hard to determine, since it is
denoted by places many of which have not been identified. It left the Dead Sea at its extreme south
end, and joined the Mediterranean at the Wady el-Arish. This territory is in average length about
45 miles, and in average breadth about 50.
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