After relating the short and evil history of Jehoram, King of Judah, the account endswith the appalling terseness which often crowns the dramatic climaxes of that matchless writing: "And (he) departed without being desired.

" The lips of Tigranes drew downward with contempt, as he said: "Judah was a captive by the waters of Babylon, and the sons of Jacob were in bondage to our kings.

For our prophets have said that he should be born not in Jerusalem, but in Bethlehem of Judah.

I saw also the long, snowy ridge of Hermon, and the dark groves of cedars, and the valley of the Jordan, and the blue waters of the Lake of Galilee, and the fertile plain of Esdraelon, and the hills of Ephraim, and the highlands of Judah.

Simeon, Dan, Judah, Benjamin, and the rest, grow up and emigrate to Western clearings.

He might as well forbid the reading of Genesis, because of the loves of Jacob and Rachael, the stories of Sichem and Dinah, Judah and Thamar; reject the Book of Numbers, for the fornications of the people of Israel with the Moabites; that of Judges for Samson and Dalilah's embracings; that of the Kings, for David and Bersheba's adulteries, the incest of Ammon and Thamar, Solomon's concubines, &c.

David to the elders of Judah, 1 Sam.

1:29-40] After two years the king sent a chief collector of tribute to the cities of Judah, who came to Jerusalem with a great multitude.

Thus he wrote to his whole kingdom; and appointed overseers over all the people, who commanded the cities of Judah to sacrifice city by city.

On the twenty-fifth day of Chislev, in the one hundred and forty-fifth year, they built an abomination of desolation upon the altar; and in the cities of Judah on every side they built idol altars.

Now therefore come first and do what the king commands, as all the nations have done, the men of Judah too, with those who remain in Jerusalem.

He went about among the cities of Judah, And destroyed the godless from the land, And turned away the wrath of God from Israel.

3:38-41] Now Lysias chose Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, influential men among the king's Friends, and with them sent forty thousand footmen and seven thousand horsemen to go into the land of Judah to destroy it, as the king had ordered.

The words of the ninth chapter express their joy and exultation: For I have bent Judah to me, As a bow which I have filled with Ephraim; I will urge thy sons against the sons of Greece, And I will make thee like the sword of a hero.

Then Judas gathered all the Israelites who were in the land of Gilead, from the least to the greatest, with their wives and children and their household possessions, a very great host, that they might go into the land of Judah.

Then Judas turned aside to Azotus, to the land of the Philistines, and pulled down their altars and burned the carved images of their gods and, taking the spoil of their cities, he returned to the land of Judah.

So they set out and came with a great army into the land of Judah, and he sent messengers to Judas and his brothers with words of peace, deceitfully.

So the land of Judah had rest for a brief period.

9:1-6] When Demetrius heard that Nicanor had fallen with his forces in battle, he sent Bacchides and Alcimus again into the land of Judah a second time, and the southern wing of his army with them.

Then he trusted him and did even as he said, and sent away his forces so that they departed into the land of Judah.

Thus they all came safely into the land of Judah, and they mourned for Jonathan and those who were with him, and they were greatly afraid.

13:1-11] Now when Simon heard that Tryphon had collected a vast army to come into the land of Judah to destroy it utterly,

2. The western headlands of Judah.

After the scepter was departed from Judah, and the Jewish nation subjugated by Pompey, the Roman emperors governed the country by procurators.

JOFFE, Judah A. SEE My musical life.