Genesis 49:27
27 a“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf,in the morning devouring the prey
and at evening bdividing the spoil.”
Numbers 1:11
11from Benjamin, cAbidan the son of Gideoni;Numbers 1:36-37
36Of 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: 37those listed of the tribe of Benjamin were d35,400.Deuteronomy 33:12
12 eOf Benjamin he said,“The beloved of the Lord dwells in safety.
The High God ▼
▼Septuagint; Hebrew dwells in safety by him. He
surrounds him all day long,and dwells between his shoulders.”
1 Chronicles 7:6-12
Descendants of Benjamin
6 gThe sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three. 7The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers’ houses, mighty warriors. And their enrollment by genealogies was 22,034. 8The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, hAnathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher. 9And their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, was 20,200. 10The son of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 11All these were the sons of Jediael according to the heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, 17,200, able to go to war. 12And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, Hushim the son of iAher.1 Chronicles 8:1-7
A Genealogy of Saul
1 jBenjamin fathered Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, kAharah the third, 2Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. 3And Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud, 4Abishua, lNaaman, Ahoah, 5Gera, mShephuphan, and Huram. 6These are the sons of Ehud (they were heads of fathers’ houses of the inhabitants of Geba, and they were carried into exile to nManahath): 7Naaman, ▼▼Hebrew and Naaman
Ahijah, and Gera, that is, Heglam, ▼▼Or he carried them into exile
who fathered Uzza and Ahihud.
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