JUDAH (Southern Kingdom)
(See also Jerusalem [Ancient]; Judah [Postexilic]; Judea)
alliances:
with Israel (northern kingdom): mwb23.05 2; it-1 60, 62-63, 1272; it-2 845, 933; si 82
with pagan nations: it-1 76-77; ip-2 266-267
Amos warns of judgment: w04 11/15 17
apostasy: ip-2 262-266; ip-1 11-17
Ahaz: it-1 61-62
astrology: it-1 207
Baal worship: it-1 231
child sacrifice: it-2 424, 1114-1115
high places: it-1 1108-1109
idolatry: it-1 1170-1171; rr 53-55, 58-59; ip-2 263-266
Manasseh: it-1 979-980; it-2 307, 835-836; ip-2 266; si 73
Queen of Heaven: it-1 387; it-2 721; nwt 1708; w88 4/1 13, 19
sacred poles: it-2 835
spiritual prostitution: it-1 240
Assyrian dominance: it-1 62; it-2 463
Assyria under Sennacherib invades: it-1 204, 954, 1103-1105; it-2 893-895; w13 11/15 18-20; si 296; w88 2/15 27-28
Hezekiah pays tribute: it-1 1104; it-2 894; ip-1 385
Isaiah foretells: it-1 1187; it-2 1101; ip-1 17-19, 108-111, 113-114
Isaiah reassures Judah: it-1 487; ip-1 146-152, 325, 327-328, 343, 345
Isaiah warns Judah against misplaced trust: ip-1 208-214
Jerusalem threatened: it-1 204; lfb 132-133; w13 11/15 19-20; g 12/10 27; si 121; w88 2/15 27-28; w88 4/15 17-18; w87 9/1 22
Lachish falls: it-2 188; w88 2/15 26-27
relief showing exiles from Lachish: it-1 952; g 11/07 17; w93 6/1 5-7; w88 2/15 26-27
Sennacherib’s annals: it-2 894-895; g 12/10 27; w88 2/15 28; w87 7/15 6
Babylon invades (618-617 B.C.E.): it-1 238, 1267; it-2 480-481; jr 24-25; si 84; w88 4/1 14
exiles: ijwbq article 193; it-1 415, 775, 1267, 1269; jr 24-25; si 296
Jehoiakim dies: it-1 1269; jr 24
temple looted: it-1 1267
Babylon invades (609-607 B.C.E.): it-1 238; g 6/12 13; gm 119-120; w88 4/1 14
Babylonian tablet: it-1 952
exiles: it-1 415-416, 775
Jerusalem besieged, falls: it-1 11; it-2 43-44, 326, 481-482, 1227-1228; w16.11 21; si 84, 128, 296; w88 3/1 29-30
judgment of Jehovah: w00 2/1 10-11; ip-1 288-300; ct 140-142; w97 12/15 13-14
Lachish taken: it-2 188
last cities to fall: it-1 226; si 334-335
Bible books addressed to: ct 141
bloodguilt: re 101
Beer-sheba a natural frontier: it-1 277
chronology: it-1 462-466; nwt 1744, 1746
Ezekiel’s 40-day “siege” of Jerusalem: it-1 462; rr 67; w07 7/1 12
compared with Israel (northern kingdom): it-2 127
composition: rr 130
conspiracies against: it-1 62, 1187; it-2 296-297; w87 4/1 10-12, 19
conspiracy advocated for (Isa 8:12): w87 9/1 20-22
decline and fall: it-2 164-165
desolation (607-537 B.C.E.): it-1 416, 1234; si 69, 73-74, 84, 285
70 years, as foretold: it-1 463, 568-569; g 6/12 13-14; w11 10/1 26-29; w11 11/1 22-25, 27; si 84-86
archaeology confirms: it-1 150, 416; it-2 44; g 6/12 14; w06 11/15 32
Isaiah foretells: ip-1 17-20, 73-86, 259-270
Jeremiah foretells: si 125-126
refugees flee to Egypt: it-1 416, 698; si 296
discussion: it-2 126-128; ct 139-142
drunkards of (Isa 28): ip-1 288-300; w91 6/1 12-13
drunkards of (Joe 1): w98 5/1 9
Hosea warns of judgment: si 144-145
Isaiah warns of judgment: ip-1 155-156
Israel (land) at times means: it-1 1234
Jeremiah warns of judgment: w88 4/1 11-13
kings: it-1 1170-1171; it-2 126-127, 156-157; w05 12/1 20; ct 139-140; si 66-68, 71-74, 81-84
attitudes toward true worship: it-1 1108-1109; w98 11/1 15-17
charts: it-1 464-466; nwt 1744, 1746
chronology: mwb22.11 7; it-1 462-463
coregency: it-1 462-463
faithful kings: w09 8/15 23
idolatry: it-1 1170-1171
kings by name:
Abijah (Abijam): it-1 23; si 67
Ahaz: it-1 61-62; w99 5/15 12-13; si 72, 83
Ahaziah (Azariah, Jehoahaz) (son of Jehoram): it-1 63, 1265; it-2 23; si 82
Asa: it-1 183-185; w14 8/15 17, 20; w12 8/15 8-10; w03 5/1 11-12; w00 3/1 14-15; si 67, 81-82
Hezekiah: it-1 1102-1105; w99 11/1 11-12; si 73, 83
Jehoahaz (son of Josiah): it-1 1265; it-2 906; si 73, 84
Jehoash: w23.09 8-10; mwb22.11 7; it-1 1265-1266; w09 4/1 24-25; w03 4/15 32; si 72
Jehoiachin (Jeconiah, Coniah): it-1 1262, 1267; si 73, 84
Jehoiakim (Eliakim): it-1 1268-1269; jr 21, 23-25; si 73, 84
Jehoram (son of Jehoshaphat): it-1 462-463, 1270-1271; si 71, 82
Jehoshaphat: it-1 1271-1272; lfb 120-121; si 82
Josiah: it-2 117-118; lfb 134-135; w09 2/1 24-25; w00 9/15 29-31; si 73, 84, 164-165
Jotham: it-2 118-119; si 72, 83
Manasseh: ijwis article 21; it-2 307; ct 140-141; si 73, 83-84
Rehoboam: mwb23.03 12; w22.02 9; w18.06 13-15; it-2 767-768; lfb 110-111; si 66-67, 81
Uzziah (Azariah): w22.02 9, 11; it-2 1146; si 72, 83
Zedekiah: it-2 1226-1228; lfb 140-141; jr 25-29; si 73-74, 84
maps: it-1 947; w08 8/15 5; jd 19
not ‘divorced’ by Jehovah (Isa 50:1): it-1 643; ip-2 152-153
Pharaoh Necho(h) II invades: it-1 698
Jehoiakim (Eliakim) enthroned by: it-1 1268
Judah made tributary: it-1 698
Pharaoh Shishak invades: it-1 697; it-2 42, 934; g 11/10 16-17; w90 6/15 7; si 295
inscription on temple at Karnak: mrt article 10; it-1 149-150, 952; it-2 934; g 11/10 16-17; w08 7/1 24; si 65, 332-333; w88 2/1 26
prophets:
chart showing kings, high priests, and: it-1 464-466
Habakkuk: jd 24-25
Isaiah: it-1 1218-1220; si 118-119
Jeremiah: it-2 30-32; lfb 138-139; si 125-126
Joel: w07 10/1 12; jd 17-18; si 146
Oded: it-2 525
Zephaniah: km 7/14 3; w09 2/1 25; jd 23-24
restoration foretold: si 119-121, 147
“screen of Judah” (Isa 22:8): ip-1 235-236
separation from northern kingdom: my story 65; si 66, 81
not separate after exile: it-1 417; rr 130, 132
symbolized by Oholibah (Eze 23): it-2 546; rr 166; w88 9/15 20-21
symbolized by stick “for Judah” (Eze 37:16): rr 130
temple falsely trusted in: w88 4/1 12, 14, 16-17
war: it-2 1166-1168