Benjamin in the Bible
Meaning: son of the right hand
Exact Match
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
This is what the Lord has said to me: Go and take your place in the doorway of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the doorways of Jerusalem;
And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.
Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.
And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
he went out of the king's house, and spake to the king, which then sat under the port of Benjamin, these words:
Thematic Bible
Benjamin » Gate » Jerusalem gate
Benjamin » Tribe of » Skill in archery and as slingers of stones
Benjamin » Tribe of » Clans of
They were enrolled by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers' households, 20,200 mighty men of valor. The son of Jediael was Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish and Ahishahar. All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' households, 17,200 mighty men of valor, who were ready to go out with the army to war. Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim was the son of Aher.
Benjamin » Tribe of » Loyal to ish-bosheth, the son of saul
Benjamin » Son of jacob by rachel » Descendants of
These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were 45,600.
Benjamin » Tribe of » Saul, the first king of israel, from
Benjamin » Tribe of » Loyal to rehoboam
Benjamin » Tribe of » Subsequently joins david
Benjamin » Son of jacob by rachel
Benjamin » Son of jacob by rachel » Taken into egypt
Benjamin » Tribe of » Paul, of the tribe of
Benjamin » Tribe of » A company of, joins david at ziklag
Benjamin » Tribe of » Allotment in the land of canaan
The border extended from there and turned round on the west side southward, from the hill which lies before Beth-horon southward; and it ended at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the west side. Then the south side was from the edge of Kiriath-jearim, and the border went westward and went to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah. The border went down to the edge of the hill which is in the valley of Ben-hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the slope of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel. It extended northward and went to En-shemesh and went to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. It continued to the side in front of the Arabah northward and went down to the Arabah. The border continued to the side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the border ended at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border. Moreover, the Jordan was its border on the east side. This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, according to their families and according to its borders all around. Now the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-keziz, and Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Bethel, and Avvim and Parah and Ophrah, and Chephar-ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve cities with their villages. Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth, and Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah, and Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah, and Zelah, Haeleph and the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.
Benjamin » Tribe of » Position of, in camp and march
Benjamin » Tribe of » Did not avenge the crime of the gibeonites against the levite's concubine, the war that followed
Benjamin » Tribe of » Reallotment
Benjamin » Tribe of » Military forces of » During the reign of jehoshaphat
Benjamin » A son of harim
Benjamin » Son of jacob by rachel » Prophecy concerning
In the morning he devours the prey,
And in the evening he divides the spoil.”
Benjamin » Tribe of » Not enrolled by joab when he took a census of the military forces of israel
Benjamin » Tribe of » Its rank during the time of samuel
Benjamin » Tribe of » Moses' benediction upon
Benjamin » Tribe of » Military forces of » During the reign of asa
Benjamin » Tribe of » Census of » On the plain of moab
Benjamin » Jew » Purified » Jerusalem walls
Benjamin » Grandson of benjamin
Benjamin » A son of harim » Probably identical with the man mentioned in
Benjamin » Tribe of » Return to palestine from the exile in babylon
Benjamin » Tribe of » Territory of, invaded by the ammonites
Benjamin » Tribe of » Join deborah in the war against sisera
Following you, Benjamin, with your peoples;
From Machir commanders came down,
And from Zebulun those who wield the staff of
Benjamin » Tribe of » Did not exterminate the jebusites
Benjamin » Tribe of » Jerusalem within the territory of
From the midst of Jerusalem!
Now blow a trumpet in Tekoa
And raise a signal over
For evil looks down from the
And a great destruction.
Benjamin » Tribe of » Census of » At sinai
Benjamin » Tribe of » Saints of, seen in john's vision
jacob » His final prophetic benedictions upon his sons » Benjamin
In the morning he devours the prey,
And in the evening he divides the spoil.”