There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
Parallel translations
- WEB There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
- BSB There is Benjamin, the youngest, ruling them, the princes of Judah in their company, the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.
- NKJV There is little Benjamin, their leader, The princes of Judah and their company, The princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.
- NASB Benjamin, the youngest, is there, ruling them, The leaders of Judah in their company, The leaders of Zebulun, the leaders of Naphtali.
- NLT Look, the little tribe of Benjamin leads the way. Then comes a great throng of rulers from Judah and all the rulers of Zebulun and Naphtali.
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Quick answer
Tribes from north and south, small Benjamin alongside Judah, Zebulun, and Naphtali, are pictured united in worship. It shows God uniting his diverse people around himself.
Overview
David names representative tribes spanning the nation, including little Benjamin and the northern tribes, gathered together before God. The image stresses the unity of God's people across former divisions. This foreshadows the gospel's gathering of a united people from every background into one body in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Sam 9:21And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
- Ps 60:7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
- 1 Chr 12:16And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.
- Isa 11:13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
- 1 Chr 27:12The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
- Judg 21:6–25And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
- 1 Chr 12:29And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
- Judg 5:18Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
- Ps 47:9The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
- Gen 42:32We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
- Judg 20:35And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
- Ezek 37:19–27Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
- 1 Chr 15:3And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.
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