1 Samuel 9:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And 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?

A benjamite

Judges 20:46

Psalm 68:27

My family

Ephesians 3:8

Bible References

A benjamite

So all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword, all of them men of valor.

There is little Benjamin, their ruler; the princes of Judah, their company; the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.

My family

But the children of Belial said, How should this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no gifts. But he was as one deaf.

And Samuel said, Was it not when thou wast little in thine eyes that thou becamest the head of the tribes of Israel, and Jehovah anointed thee king over Israel?

And David said to Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?

And the LORD turned to him and said, "Go in this might of yours and deliver Israel from the hand of Mid'ian; do not I send you?"

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel: but he trespassed through Baal, and he died.

for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted.

To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ,