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1 Samuel 9 21
Saul replied,“ Am I not a Benjaminite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?”
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1 Chronicles 12 16
Then some of the sons of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.
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1 Chronicles 15 3
And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place which he had prepared for it.
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1 Chronicles 12 29
From the sons of Benjamin, Saul’s kinsmen, three thousand; for until now the majority of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.
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Judges 20:35
And the Lord struck Benjamin before Israel, so that the sons of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day, all who drew the sword.
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Ezekiel 37:19-27
say to them,‘ This is what the Lord God says:“ Behold, I am going to take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.” ’The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.And say to them,‘ This is what the Lord God says:“ Behold, I am going to take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations, and no longer be divided into two kingdoms.They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their offenses; but I will rescue them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.“ And My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes and follow them.And they will live on the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons’ sons, forever; and My servant David will be their leader forever.And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and set My sanctuary in their midst forever.My dwelling place also will be among them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.
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Psalms 60:7
Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim also is the helmet of My head; Judah is My scepter.
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1 Chronicles 27 12
The ninth, for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite of the Benjaminites; and in his division were twenty four thousand.
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Genesis 42:32
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’
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Judges 5:18
Zebulun was a people who risked their lives, And Naphtali too, on the high places of the field.
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Psalms 47:9
The princes of the people have assembled as the people of the God of Abraham, For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.
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Isaiah 11:13
Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, And those who harass Judah will be eliminated; Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, And Judah will not harass Ephraim.
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Judges 21:6-25
And the sons of Israel were sorry for their brother Benjamin, and said,“ Today one tribe is cut off from Israel!What are we to do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the Lord not to give them any of our daughters as wives?”And they said,“ What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not go up to the Lord at Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh gilead to the assembly.For when the people were counted, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh gilead was there.And the congregation sent twelve thousand of the valiant warriors there, and commanded them, saying,“ Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh gilead with the edge of the sword, along with the women and the children.And this is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has slept with a male.”And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known a man by sleeping with him; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.Then the whole congregation sent word and spoke to the sons of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.And the tribe of Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had allowed to live from the women of Jabesh gilead; but they were not enough for them.And the people were sorry for Benjamin, because the Lord had created a gap in the tribes of Israel.Then the elders of the congregation said,“ What are we to do for wives for those who are left, since the women have been eliminated from Benjamin?”And they said,“ There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe will not be wiped out from Israel.But we cannot give them wives from our daughters.” For the sons of Israel had sworn, saying,“ Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin!”So they said,“ Behold, there is a feast of the Lord from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south side of Lebonah.”And they commanded the sons of Benjamin, saying,“ Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,and watch; and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to take part in the dances, then you shall come out of the vineyards, and each of you shall seize his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we shall say to them,‘ Give them to us voluntarily, because we did not take for each man of Benjamin a wife in battle, nor did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.’ ”The sons of Benjamin did so, and took wives according to their number from those who danced, whom they seized. And they went and returned to their inheritance, and rebuilt the cities and lived in them.And the sons of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and each one departed from there to his inheritance.In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.