BENJAMIN

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• Genesis 35:18

  As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

• Genesis 35:24

  The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

• Genesis 46:19

  The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

• Genesis 46:21

  The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

• Genesis 49:27

  “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”

• Numbers 1:37

  those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 2:18

  “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.

• Numbers 2:22

  “The tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

• Numbers 26:38

  The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;

• Numbers 26:39

  of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

• Numbers 26:40

  The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

• Numbers 26:41

  These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.

• Deuteronomy 32:12

  Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.

• Joshua 18:11

  The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families. The border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

• Joshua 18:12

  Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.

• Joshua 18:13

  The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.

• Joshua 18:14

  The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (also called Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.

• Joshua 18:15

  The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.

• Joshua 18:16

  The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward. It went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel.

• Joshua 18:17

  It extended northward, went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim. It went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.

• Joshua 18:18

  It passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah.

• Joshua 18:19

  The border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border.

• Joshua 18:20

  The Jordan was its border on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders around it, according to their families.

• Joshua 18:21

  Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,

• Joshua 18:22

  Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

• Joshua 18:23

  Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,

• Joshua 18:24

  Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.

• Joshua 18:25

  Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

• Joshua 18:26

  Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

• Joshua 18:27

  Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,

• Joshua 18:28

  Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

• Judges 1:21

  The children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

• Judges 3:15

  But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior for them, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

• Judges 5:14

  Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun.

• Judges 10:9

  The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.

• Judges 20:16

  Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

• 1 Samuel 9:1

  Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.

• 1 Samuel 9:17

  When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, “Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! He will have authority over my people.”

• 1 Samuel 9:21

  Saul answered, “Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me like this?”

• 1 Samuel 10:20

  So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen.

• 1 Samuel 10:21

  He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; and the family of the Matrites was chosen. Then Saul the son of Kish was chosen; but when they looked for him, he could not be found.

• 2 Samuel 2:9

  and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

• 2 Samuel 2:15

  Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants.

• 2 Samuel 2:31

  But David’s servants had struck Benjamin and of Abner’s men so that three hundred sixty men died.

• 2 Samuel 3:19

  Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin.

• 2 Samuel 19:16

  Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

• 2 Samuel 19:17

  There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of Saul’s house, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of the king.

• 1 Kings 12:21

  When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

• 1 Chronicles 7:6

  The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.

• 1 Chronicles 7:7

  The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.

• 1 Chronicles 7:8

  The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

• 1 Chronicles 7:9

  They were listed by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.

• 1 Chronicles 7:10

  The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

• 1 Chronicles 7:11

  All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war.

• 1 Chronicles 7:12

  So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.

• 1 Chronicles 8:40

  The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons’ sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.

• 1 Chronicles 12:1

  Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he was a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish. They were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.

• 1 Chronicles 12:2

  They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin.

• 1 Chronicles 12:16

  Some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.

• 1 Chronicles 12:29

  Of the children of Benjamin, Saul’s relatives, three thousand: for until then, the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to Saul’s house.

• 1 Chronicles 21:6

  But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

• 2 Chronicles 11:1

  When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

• 2 Chronicles 14:8

  Asa had an army of three hundred thousand out of Judah who bore bucklers and spears, and two hundred eighty thousand out of Benjamin who bore shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor.

• 2 Chronicles 17:17

  From Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;

• Ezra 1:5

  Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.

• Ezra 10:32

  Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.

• Nehemiah 3:23

  After them, Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs across from their house. After them, Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah made repairs beside his own house.

• Nehemiah 12:34

  Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah,

• Jeremiah 6:1

  “Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks out from the north, and a great destruction.

• Jeremiah 20:2

  Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

• Jeremiah 37:13

  When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

• Jeremiah 38:7

  Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),

• Ezekiel 48:23

  As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one portion.

• Zechariah 14:10

  All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.

• Romans 11:1

  I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

• Philippians 3:5

  circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

• Revelation 7:8

  of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.