• remaining Benjaminite men since all other people in Benjamin had been killed. However, they had taken an oath not to give their daughters to a Benjaminite, so...
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    given as a descendant of a Benjaminite named Kish. As "Kish" was also the name of the father of King Saul, another Benjaminite, the Talmud accords Mordecai...
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    In the Old Testament, Sheba was a Benjaminite leader who revolted against King David, recounted in 2 Samuel. Sheba was a son of Bichri, of the family...
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    Additionally, older men in Nauvoo organized into a group they called the "Benjaminite Company", at one point asking the privilege of assembling with the Legion...
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    places. In the Book of Judges, it is the main setting to the story of the Benjaminite War. Later, in the Book of Samuel, it is mentioned as the first capital...
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    from history. Members of the tribe are referred to as Benjamites or Benjaminites. An account in Genesis explains the name of Benjamin due to the birth...
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    executed, but the Benjaminites refused and decided to go to war to defend the men of Gibeah instead. They gathered a rebel Benjaminite force of 26,000 to...
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    Benjaminites seize wives from Shiloh in this 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. There were not enough women available for marriage due to the...
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  • against the Benjaminites, and their 400 unmarried daughters given in forced marriage to the 600 Benjamite survivors. Finally, the 200 Benjaminite survivors...
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    coincide (a huge victory against the Benjaminites. The head count of the fighting men both from the Benjaminites and the other tribes of Israel in verses...
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    it is based on the Biblical episode where the oath against marrying Benjaminites was circumvented by allowing them to take women from the vineyards as...
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    from Israel by the Assyrians between 740 and 722 BC, as well as Jews, Benjaminites, and Levites who were exiled from the Kingdom of Judah by the Babylonians...
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    killing each other, but a battle follows and David wins. During the Benjaminites' retreat, Joab's brother Asahel chases Abner and Abner kills him, shocking...
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  • Balipholite Blp Benitoite Bni Bobjonesite Bjon Brontesite Bte Balkanite Bkn Benjaminite Bnj Bobkingite Bkg Brookite Brk Balliranoite Blr Benleonardite Bln Bobmeyerite...
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  • Tribe of Benjamin. In 1 Samuel, 22:7, Saul appeals to the loyalty of his Benjaminite kinsmen. Elsewhere, David relies on the loyalty of the tribe of Judah...
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  • descendants of Gad in 1 Chr 5:13. A benjaminite and the oldest of the three sons of Elpaal mentioned in 1 Chr 8:12. A benjaminite and one of the heads of the...
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    consulted by the people of Israel when they were planning to attack the Benjaminites at the Battle of Gibeah. Later the Ark was kept at Shiloh again, where...
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    their kindred the Ammonites and the Amalekites (Judges 3:12–30). The Benjaminite shofet Ehud ben Gera assassinated the Moabite king Eglon and led an Israelite...
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  • and Abiathar with Zadok. Solomon then instructs Shimei ben Gera, the Benjaminite who cursed David as he was fleeing from Absalom, to move to Jerusalem...
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    Benjamin and that of the tribe of Ephraim, which first belonged to the Benjaminites and was later conquered by the Ephraimites. In the 4th century, Eusebius...
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    (1:11–15) The story of how the remainder of the Benjaminites got their wives (21:1–25) The Benjaminites fail to drive out the Jebusites from Jebus (1:21)...
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    Benjaminites seize wives from Shiloh in this 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. There were not enough women available for marriage after the...
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  • who denounced Jeremiah to king Zedekiah. A descendant of Haruph and a Benjaminite warrior of David in Ziklag according to 1 Chronicles 2:5. A son of Maakah...
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    attack the Benjaminites for this grievous sin according to Judges 20:1–11. At the same time, the decision was made to ban marriage Benjaminite men and Israelite...
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    Benjaminites seize wives from Shiloh in this 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. There were not enough women available for marriage due to the...
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    plaintive song of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, the Benjaminite. / LORD my God, in you I trusted text and footnotes, usccb.org United...
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    Menelaus was not an Aaronite, but brother of Simon and thus also a Benjaminite. When Menelaus removed some vessels from the Temple to curry favor with...
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    Benjaminites?" The LORD replied, "Judah…." (20:18) The story of how Othniel got his wife (1:11–15) The story of how the remainder of the Benjaminites...
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  • executed, but the Benjaminites refused and decided to go to war to defend the men of Gibeah instead. They gathered a rebel Benjaminite force of 26,000 to...
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  • Benjamin and it is known that the family of Saul had ties with them. Benjaminites in the southern kingdom of Judah were assimilated by the more powerful...
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