Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'judah' occurs 850 times in the standard works.

396 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'judah' in the standard works and contain 46.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 176 minutes to read the entire list.

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Jer. 44:24-45:1 (8 in 8 verses)

2 Chr. 13:13-18 (7 in 6 verses)

2 Kgs. 14:9-15 (7 in 7 verses)

2 Chr. 25:17-23 (7 in 7 verses)

2 Sam. 19:40-20:2 (6 in 6 verses)

2 Chr. 17:5-10 (6 in 6 verses)

2 Chr. 17:9-14 (6 in 6 verses)

2 Chr. 21:8-13 (6 in 6 verses)

Jer. 36:28-37:1 (6 in 6 verses)

Jer. 44:9-14 (6 in 6 verses)

Zech. 12:2-7 (6 in 6 verses)

Judg. 1:16-19 (5 in 4 verses)

Gen. 38:20-24 (5 in 5 verses)

Gen. 38:22-26 (5 in 5 verses)

2 Chr. 14:4-8 (5 in 5 verses)

2 Chr. 30:24-31:1 (5 in 5 verses)

Isa. 11:12-13 (4 in 2 verses)

Jer. 26:18-19 (4 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 21:12-13 (4 in 2 verses)

Judg. 17:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 20:3-5 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 28:17-19 (4 in 3 verses)

Jer. 25:1-3 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 12:20-23 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Kgs. 18:13-16 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Chr. 2:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Jer. 27:18-21 (4 in 4 verses)

Jer. 32:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Jer. 34:4-7 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 38:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 12:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 21:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 32:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

Neh. 11:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 1:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 17:19-20 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 43:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 38:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 49:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Josh. 7:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 1:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 1:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 15:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 19:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 14:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 11:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 11:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 25:28-26:2 (3 in 3 verses)

Neh. 13:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 4:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 32:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 34:21-35:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 36:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Hosea 5:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Joel 3:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Zech. 1:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 2:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 33:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 15:63 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 19:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 19:18 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 2:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 5:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 12:27 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 15:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 8:16 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 23:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 25:27 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 28:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 16:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 17:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 23:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 25:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 31:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 1:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 24:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 28:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 36:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 52:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Mal. 2:11 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 3:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 38:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 1:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 26:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 15:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 15:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 19:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ruth 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 2:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 20:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 14:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 15:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 8:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 8:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 14:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 15:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 17:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 21:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 24:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 25:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 9:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 12:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 15:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 16:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 20:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 24:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 24:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 25:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 25:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 28:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 28:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 32:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 34:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)


Ezra 1:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

 1:2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

 1:3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.




Neh. 6:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 11:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 12:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 3:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 3:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 7:34-8:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 11:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 11:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 17:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 19:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 20:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 22:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 26:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 29:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 30:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 31:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 33:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 40:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 44:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 48:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Amos 2:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 825 0 825
Gen. 28 0 28
Ex. 4 0 4
Num. 13 0 13
Deut. 4 0 4
Josh. 24 0 24
Judg. 25 0 25
Ruth 4 0 4
1 Sam. 14 0 14
2 Sam. 30 0 30
1 Kgs. 42 0 42
2 Kgs. 95 0 95
1 Chr. 25 0 25
2 Chr. 161 0 161
Ezra 15 0 15
Neh. 28 0 28
Esth. 1 0 1
Ps. 9 0 9
Prov. 1 0 1
Isa. 29 0 29
Jer. 183 0 183
Lam. 5 0 5
Ezek. 15 0 15
Dan. 7 0 7
Hosea 15 0 15
Joel 6 0 6
Amos 4 0 4
Obad. 1 0 1
Micah 4 0 4
Nahum 1 0 1
Zeph. 3 0 3
Hag. 4 0 4
Zech. 22 0 22
Mal. 3 0 3
NT 1 0 1
BM 21 0 21
DC 3 0 3
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 850 0 850

Ezra 1:2
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Ezra 1:3
Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.

Ezra 1:5
Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

Ezra 1:8
Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

Ezra 2:1
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;

Ezra 3:9
Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.

Ezra 4:1
Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the Lord God of Israel;

Ezra 4:4
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

Ezra 4:6
And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

Ezra 5:1
Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.

Ezra 7:14
Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;

Ezra 9:9
For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Ezra 10:7
And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;

Ezra 10:9
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

Ezra 10:23
Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.