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  2. Judah (son of Jacob) - Wikipedia

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    Judah, from the series Jacob and His Twelve Sons c. 1640 – c. 1645 by Francisco de Zurbarán. The text of the Torah argues that the name of Judah, meaning to thank or admit, refers to Leah's intent to thank Hashem, on account of having achieved four children, and derived from odeh, meaning I will give thanks.

  3. Jewish history - Wikipedia

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    The Bible portrays Israel and Judah as the successors of an earlier United Kingdom of Israel, although its historicity is disputed. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Historians and archaeologists agree that the northern Kingdom of Israel existed from ca. 900 BCE [ 1 ] : 169–195 [ 33 ] and that the Kingdom of Judah existed from ca. 700 BCE. [ 2 ]

  4. File:Last kings of judah synchronisms 20141118 - PDF version.pdf

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    assuming either the accession year system or the non-accession year system for the last kings of Judah; counting regnal years of the last Jewish rulers from either Nisan 1 or Tishri 1; chossing either Adar or Nisan 597 BC as the beginning of king Zedekiah's reign and Jehoiachin's exile [40].

  5. Kings of Israel and Judah - Wikipedia

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    The article deals with the biblical and historical kings of the Land of Israel—Abimelech of Sichem, the three kings of the United Kingdom of Israel and those of its successor states, Israel and Judah, followed in the Second Temple period, part of classical antiquity, by the kingdoms ruled by the Hasmonean and Herodian dynasties.

  6. History of ancient Israel and Judah - Wikipedia

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    According to the Hebrew Bible, a "United Monarchy" consisting of Israel and Judah existed as early as the 11th century BCE, under the reigns of Saul, David, and Solomon; the great kingdom later was separated into two smaller kingdoms: Israel, containing the cities of Shechem and Samaria, in the north, and Judah, containing Jerusalem and Solomon ...

  7. Kingdom of Judah - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Judah was located in the Judean Mountains, stretching from Jerusalem to Hebron and into the Negev Desert.The central ridge, ranging from forested and shrubland-covered mountains gently sloping towards the hills of the Shephelah in the west, to the dry and arid landscapes of the Judaean Desert descending into the Jordan Valley to the east, formed the kingdom's core.

  8. Kings of Judah - Wikipedia

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    The genealogy of the kings of Judah, along with the kings of Israel.. The Kings of Judah were the monarchs who ruled over the ancient Kingdom of Judah, which was formed in about 930 BC, according to the Hebrew Bible, when the United Kingdom of Israel split, with the people of the northern Kingdom of Israel rejecting Rehoboam as their monarch, leaving him as solely the King of Judah.

  9. Timeline of Jewish history - Wikipedia

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    The Prophecy of Micah, which was recorded in the Book of Micah in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament Bible. 740-722 The Kingdom of Israel falls to the Neo-Assyrian Empire , The fall of Israel resulted in the deportation of many Israelites, often referred to as the " Lost Ten Tribes ", This marked the end of the Northern Kingdom of Israel ...