JUDAH, The tribe of, Sylvester Hassell Gen.. 49:10, “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.”
Judah never ceased to be a tribe with at least a tribal scepter and lawgiver, Sanhedrim or Senators, until the destruction of Jerusalem, A.D. 70. The power of life and death is said to have been taken by the Roman procurators or governors, about A.D. 30, or the time of the crucifixion of Christ (John 18:31,32).
The Idumean, Herod the Great, though appointed by the Roman Senate king of Judah, B.C. 40, ruled as a native sovereign, even rebuilding or extensively repairing and beautifying the temple, until his death, B.C. 4. (Hassell)