Genesis 42:32
32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One ais no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.’Judges 20:35
35And the Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the people of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day. All these were men who bdrew the sword.Judges 21:6-25
6And the people of Israel chad compassion for Benjamin their brother and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel this day. 7 dWhat shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?”8And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp from eJabesh-gilead, to the assembly. 9For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of fJabesh-gilead was there. 10So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, g“Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones. 11This is what you shall do: hevery male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.” 12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at iShiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
13Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the jrock of Rimmon and kproclaimed peace to them. 14And Benjamin returned at that time. And they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, but they were not enough for them. 15And the people lhad compassion on Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
16Then the elders of the congregation said, m“What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?” 17And they said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel. 18Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters.” nFor the people of Israel had sworn, “Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.” 19So they said, “Behold, there is the yearly feast of the Lord at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of othe highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.” 20And they commanded the people of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in ambush in the vineyards 21and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to pdance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. 22And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.’” 23And the people of Benjamin did so and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off. Then they went and returned to their inheritance qand rebuilt the towns and lived in them. 24And the people of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.
25 rIn those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
1 Samuel 9:21
21Saul answered, “Am I not a Benjaminite, sfrom the least of the tribes of Israel? tAnd is not my clan the humblest of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?”1 Chronicles 12:16
16And some of the men of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.1 Chronicles 12:29
29Of the Benjaminites, uthe kinsmen of Saul, 3,000, of whom the vmajority had to that point kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.1 Chronicles 15:3
3 wAnd David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord xto its place, which he had prepared for it.1 Chronicles 27:12
12Ninth, for the ninth month, was yAbiezer of Anathoth, a Benjaminite; in his division were 24,000.
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