Kingdom of Judah consisted of the tribal territory of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, an area with about 8900 km ² (3.436 sq mi). The capital is Jerusalem, which is located in the territory of Benjamin.
Areas that make up the kingdom consists of a region known as Har Yehudah ("mountains (region) steep"). The region was once the residence of the Kenites, Caleb, Othniel, and the Jebusites in Jerusalem.
Kingdom of Judah (Hebrew: מַלְכוּת יְהוּדָה, Standard Tiberian Malḫut Yəhuda Malḵûṯ Yəhûḏāh) living in two periods in Jewish history. According to the Hebrew Bible, a kingdom emerged in Judah after the death of Saul, when David raised the tribe of Judah, which come from the Tribe of Judah, to govern the region. After seven years David became king of the Kingdom of Israel union. During this period, Jerusalem became the capital of the kingdom of the union. (2 Samuel 5:6-7) " 6 The king and his men marched to Jerusalem to attack the Jebusites, who lived there. The Jebusites said to David, “You will not get in here; even the blind and the lame can ward you off.” They thought, “David cannot get in here.” 7 Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David. " However, in about 930 BC, the kingdom split the union, with ten of the twelve tribes of Israel rejected David's grandson Rehoboam as their king.
Kingdom of Judah emerging as one of the government, and other government known as the Kingdom of Israel, or Israel. Kingdom of Judah is often referred to as the Kingdom of the South, while the kingdom of Israel by the divisions are called the Northern Kingdom. Judah survived until 586 BC, when the kingdom was invaded by the Babylonian Empire under Nebuzaradan, chief guard of Nebuchadnezzar. (2 Kings 25:8-21)
8 On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 9 He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down. 10 The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the imperial guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem. 11 Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon. 12 But the commander left behind some of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
13 The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the LORD and they carried the bronze to Babylon. 14 They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service. 15 The commander of the imperial guard took away the censers and sprinkling bowls—all that were made of pure gold or silver.
16 The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the movable stands, which Solomon had made for the temple of the LORD, was more than could be weighed. 17 Each pillar was eighteen cubits[a] high. The bronze capital on top of one pillar was three cubits[b] high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its network, was similar.
18 The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers. 19 Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and five royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land and sixty of the conscripts who were found in the city. 20 Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 21 There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed. So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.
With the exile of the population and the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem, destruction of the kingdom is finished already.
David's dynasty began when the tribe of Judah raised up David as king after the death of Saul. The line of David continued when he became King of Israel union. When the empire split the union, the tribe of Judah and Benjamin remained following the line of David, who ruled until the kingdom was destroyed in 586 BC. Even so, the line of David still respected by the exiles in Babylon, which honor Rosh Galut as a king in exile.
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