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Tribe of Benjamin
The tribe of Benjamin was one of the tribes of Israel, made up of the descendants of Benjamin, the youngest son of Jacob. Israel's first king, Saul, and the apostle Paul both came from this tribe.
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- BenjaminPeople
Benjamin was the second son of Jacob and Rachel and the youngest of Jacob's twelve sons. He was the ancestor of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
- AnathothBible
Anathoth was a priestly city in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin and the hometown of the prophet Jeremiah. It is best known for the account of Jeremiah's purchase of a field there during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem.
- GibeahBible
Gibeah was a town in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. It is the setting of the account of the Levite's concubine and the ensuing Benjamite civil war in Judges 19–21, and it was the hometown of Saul, the first king of Israel.
- OphrahBible
Ophrah is an Old Testament place name borne by two towns: the hometown of the judge Gideon and a town of the tribe of Benjamin. First Chronicles also mentions a man by this name.
- RamahBible
Ramah is a Hebrew place name meaning "high place." In the Bible it most often refers to a town in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin, north of Jerusalem. It became widely known through Matthew 2:18, which quotes the "voice ... heard in Ramah" of Jeremiah 31:15.
Verses in the King James Version 26, showing 6
- Numbers 1:37
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
- Numbers 2:22
Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
- Numbers 13:9
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
- Numbers 34:21
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
- Joshua 21:4
And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
- Joshua 21:17
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
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