Benjamin in the Bible
Meaning: son of the right hand
Exact Match
And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.
And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
"Listen to me, Asa, Judah, and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will allow you to find him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you. Israel lived for years without the true God, priests to teach them, and the Law,
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.
And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
Thematic Bible
Benjamin » Gate » Jerusalem gate
Benjamin » Tribe of » Skill in archery and as slingers of stones
All these were among Benjamin’s sons.
Benjamin » Tribe of » Clans of
Their genealogies were recorded according to the heads of their ancestral houses-20,200 warriors. Jediael's son: Bilhan. Bilhan's sons: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. All these sons of Jediael listed by heads of families were warriors; there were 17,200 who could serve in the army. Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir, and the Hushim were the sons of Aher.
Benjamin » Tribe of » Loyal to ish-bosheth, the son of saul
Benjamin » Son of jacob by rachel » Descendants of
These were the Benjaminite clans numbered by their registered men: 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
Joseph and Benjamin.
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
On the west side, from the hill facing Beth-horon on the south, the border curved, turning southward, and ended at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the descendants of Judah. This was the west side [of their border]. The south side began at the edge of Kiriath-jearim, and the border extended westward; it went to the spring at the Waters of Nephtoah. The border descended to the foot of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim. It ran down the Valley of Hinnom toward the south Jebusite slope and downward to En-rogel. It curved northward and went to En-shemesh and on to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, and continued down to the Stone of Bohan, Reuben's son. Then it went north to the slope opposite the Jordan Valleyand proceeded into the valley. The border continued to the north slope of Beth-hoglah and ended at the northern bay of the Dead Sea, at the southern end of the Jordan. This was the southern border. The Jordan formed the border on the east side. This was the inheritance of Benjamin's descendants, by their clans, according to its surrounding borders. These were the cities of the tribe of Benjamin's descendants by their clans: Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz, Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba-12 cities, with their villages; Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah, Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-14 cities, with their villages. This was the inheritance for Benjamin's descendants by their clans.
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 plunder.”
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
with no help from a foreign god.
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
Bilhan’s sons: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
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
Benjamin came with your people after you.
The leaders came down from Machir,
and those who carry a marshal’s staff came from Zebulun.
Benjamin » Tribe of » Did not exterminate the jebusites
Benjamin » Tribe of » Jerusalem within the territory of
out of Jerusalem!
Sound the ram’s horn
raise a smoke signal
for disaster threatens from the north,
even great destruction.
Benjamin » Tribe of » Census of » At sinai
Benjamin » Tribe of » Saints of, seen in john's vision
12,000 from the tribe of Joseph,
12,000 sealed from the tribe of Benjamin.
jacob » His final prophetic benedictions upon his sons » Benjamin
In the morning he devours the prey,
and in the evening he divides the plunder.”
Rachel » Later productiveness of; becomes the mother of » Benjamin
Joseph and Benjamin.