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 that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these [were] men of valor.

There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

My family

But certain worthless fellows said, "How shall this man save us?" They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

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?"

Yahweh looked at him, and said, "Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven't I sent you?"

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty in Baal, he died.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,