Genesis 35:18

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Summary

And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.

Her soul

Ben-oni

1 Chronicles 4:9

General references

Bible References

Her soul

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!"

And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, "Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son." But she did not answer or pay attention.

For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.

"Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

They cry to their mothers, "Where is bread and wine?" as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers' bosom.

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" And having said this he breathed his last.

And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

Ben-oni

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain."

General references

The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.

These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:

Of the people of Benjamin, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: