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those registered for the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.
The tribe of Benjamin will be next. The leader of the Benjaminites is Abidan son of Gideoni.
and Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of Benjamin.
The lot came up for the tribe of Benjamin’s descendants by their clans, and their allotted territory lay between Judah’s descendants and Joseph’s descendants.
These were the cities of the tribe of Benjamin’s descendants by their clans:
Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,
From the tribe of Benjamin they gave:
Gibeon with its pasturelands, Geba with its pasturelands,
Then the tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this outrage that has occurred among you?
Samuel had all the tribes of Israel come forward, and the tribe of Benjamin was selected.
Then he had the tribe of Benjamin come forward by its clans, and the Matrite clan was selected.
When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem,
From the tribe of Benjamin they were given Geba and its pasturelands, Alemeth and its pasturelands, and Anathoth and its pasturelands. They had 13 towns in all among their families.
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for Benjamin, Jaasiel son of Abner;
They said, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.
Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, as well as those from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had settled among them, for they had defected to him from Israel in great numbers when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.
“When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
The lot came out for the Kohathite clans: The Levites who were the descendants of Aaron the priest received 13 cities by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.
We will take 10 men out of every 100 from all the tribes of Israel, and 100 out of every 1,000, and 1,000 out of every 10,000 to get provisions for the people when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for all the horror they did in Israel.”
The people had compassion on Benjamin, because the Lord had made this gap in the tribes of Israel.
“As for the rest of the tribes:
For the tribe of the Reubenites and the tribe of the Gadites have received their inheritance according to their ancestral houses, and half the tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance.
An inheritance belonging to the Israelites must not transfer from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of his ancestral tribe.
In the morning you must present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe the Lord selects is to come forward clan by clan. The clan the Lord selects is to come forward family by family. The family the Lord selects is to come forward man by man.
Joshua got up early the next morning. He had Israel come forward tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was selected.
Across the Jordan east of Jericho, they selected Bezer on the wilderness plateau from Reuben’s tribe, Ramoth in Gilead from Gad’s tribe, and Golan in Bashan from Manasseh’s tribe.
The Lord defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 men of Benjamin; all were armed men.
Then Joseph threw his arms around Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his shoulder.
When Balaam looked up and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God
But also bring your relatives with you from the tribe of Levi, your ancestral tribe, so they may join you and assist you and your sons in front of the tent of the testimony.
Of the cities that you give from the Israelites’ territory, you should take more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one. Each tribe is to give some of its cities to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance it receives.”
When the Jubilee
Any daughter who possesses an inheritance from an Israelite tribe must marry someone from the clan of her ancestral tribe, so that each of the Israelites will possess the inheritance of his fathers.
And to half the tribe of Manasseh, that is, to half the tribe of Manasseh’s descendants by their clans, Moses gave
and had 30 sons. He gave his 30 daughters in marriage to men outside the tribe and brought back 30 wives for his sons from outside the tribe. Ibzan judged Israel seven years,
If they marry any of the men from the other Israelite tribes, their inheritance will be taken away from our fathers’ inheritance and added to that of the tribe into which they marry. Therefore, part of our allotted inheritance would be taken away.
No inheritance is to transfer from one tribe to another, because each of the Israelite tribes is to retain its inheritance.”
Therefore, divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”
Now choose 12 men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.
The remaining descendants of Kohath
Gershon’s descendants received 13 cities by lot from the clans of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and half the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
In those days, there was no king in Israel,
Saul responded, “Am I not a Benjaminite
but one tribe will remain his because of my servant David
But he did not include Levi and Benjamin in the count because the king’s command was detestable to him.
When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem,
“Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon, king of Judah, to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people:
Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.
He also put large shields and spears in each and every city to make them very strong. So Judah and Benjamin were his.
Rehoboam also showed discernment by dispersing some of his sons to all the regions of Judah and Benjamin and to all the fortified cities. He gave them plenty of provisions and sought many wives for them.
Asa had an army of 300,000 from Judah bearing large shields and spears,
So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you
When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim.
The descendants of Benjamin:
Then Amaziah gathered Judah and assembled them according to ancestral house, according to commanders of thousands, and according to commanders of hundreds. He numbered those 20 years old or more
When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars
So they went to Hilkiah
He had all those present in Jerusalem and Benjamin agree
the Belaite clan from Bela;
the Ashbelite clan from Ashbel;
the Ahiramite clan from Ahiram;
So the family leaders of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone God had motivated
When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin
So all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered in Jerusalem within the three days. On the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God,
After them Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs opposite their house. Beside them Azariah son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah, made repairs beside his house.
while some of the descendants of Judah and Benjamin settled in Jerusalem):
Judah’s
Athaiah son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalalel, of Perez’s descendants;
These were Benjamin’s descendants:
Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Joed, son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of Maaseiah, son of Ithiel, son of Jeshaiah,
The words of Jeremiah,
from Geba,
and Bethel
He said about Benjamin:
He
and he rests on His shoulders.
Then people will come from the cities of Judah and from the area around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin and from the Judean foothills, from the hill country and from the Negev
So Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks at the Upper Benjamin Gate in the Lord’s temple.
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.
Zela, Haeleph, Jebus
This was the inheritance for Benjamin’s descendants by their clans.
“Then my cousin Hanamel came to the guard’s courtyard as the Lord had said and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.
Fields will be purchased with silver, the transaction written on a scroll and sealed,
This is the Lord’s declaration.
The flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them
Jeremiah started to leave Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to claim his portion there
But when he was at the Benjamin Gate,
But Ebed-melech, a Cushite court official employed in the king’s palace, heard Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate,
Benjamin came with your people after you.
The leaders came down from Machir,
and those who carry a marshal’s staff came from Zebulun.
The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim. Israel was greatly oppressed,
So they continued on their journey, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.
The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I went to Gibeah in Benjamin with my concubine to spend the night.
The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, rallied 400,000 armed men, every one an experienced warrior.
The men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took their battle positions against Gibeah.
Then the Benjaminites realized they had been defeated.
The men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin, because they were confident in the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
the men of Israel would return to the battle. When Benjamin had begun to strike them down, killing about 30 men of Israel, they said, “They’re defeated before us, just as they were in the first battle.”
But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, Benjamin looked behind them, and the whole city was going up in smoke.
Then the men of Israel returned, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had struck them.
There were 18,000 men who died from Benjamin; all were warriors.
Then Benjamin turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon,
Benjamin returned at that time, and Israel gave them the women they had kept alive from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough for them.
The elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who are left, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”
Watch, and when you see the young women of Shiloh come out to perform the dances,
There was an influential man of Benjamin named Kish