There seems to be no truly satisfactory resolution of the problem of the western boundary of Benjamin.
52, ed. R., lntroduction, 33).
New International Version (NIV), Encyclopedia of The Bible – Tribe of Benjamin. Judges 1:21 points to the city being within the territory of Benjamin, while Joshua 15:63 implies that the city was within the territory of Judah.
The name "Benjamin" is given various meanings by the Rabbis. All except Judah followed him and Joab pursued him on behalf of David. xlii., xliii. ), which bears evidences of very late composition and has many legendary features, such as exaggeration of numbers and modes of warfare, has been rather too rashly declared to be a late invention inserted with the intention of covering up atrocities perpetrated by the tribe of Judah under King David against the kinsmen of Saul (Güdemann, "Monatsschrift," 1869, p. 357; Geiger, "Jüd. In spite of their wrong-doing the Benjamites were at first victorious (Judges xx. 7). Bilgah; also Herzfeld, "Gesch. 12). In the desert, where Benjamin formed part of the camp of the sons of Joseph, the tribe counted 35,400 warriors, and later on 45,600 men (Num.
xlii. The day on which the reconciliation took place between the tribes is said to have been the fifteenth of Ab, and for this reason it was made a festive day (ib. but Jacob did not beget you, nor Rachel bear you.". 22). Some have thought that the origin of the tribe is to be found in the Binu (or Maru) yamina of the 18th cent. 17, 18). According to Genesis, Benjamin was the result of a painful birth in which his mother died, naming him Ben-Oni, "son of my pain," immediately before her death. The story of Benjamin in Genesis is drawn from three different sources: The Elohist, who wrote the story of Benjamin's birth (Gen. xxxv. It gave the nation its first king, in the person of Saul, son of Kish (I Sam. 21 [20]). 4, 15; xliv. Rehoboam evidently managed to unite Benjamin, or at least a portion of it, together with Judah, so the capital could be held. In geographical terms, the term Benjamin can be read as "son of the south" from the perspective of the northern Kingdom of Israel, as the Benjamite territory was at the southern edge of the northern kingdom.[1].
This tribe was almost exterminated in an ancient Israelite civil war in which the Benjaminites were sufficiently fearless and foolhardy to fight all the other tribes at once. The blessing of Moses (Deut. 40, xii. Thus Shimei, the son of Gera, who was of the house of Saul, when he saw David and his men fleeing from Absalom, cursed him, raining dust and stones on his head (16:5ff.). ; "Sefer ha-Yashar," Wayishlaḥ, ib.
On the accession of Rehoboam, David's grandson, in c. 930 BCE the northern tribes split from the House of David to constitute the northern Kingdom of Israel. ", "It behooves us to ask, in spite of the fact that the overwhelming consensus of modern scholarship is that Joshua is a pious fiction composed by the deuteronomistic school, how does and how has the Jewish community dealt with these foundational narratives, saturated as they are with acts of violence against others? Though Joshua allocated Bethel to Benjamin, by the time of the prophetess Deborah, Bethel is described as being in the land of the Tribe of Ephraim (Judges 4:5).
Although Jerusalem was in the territory allocated to the tribe of Benjamin (Joshua 18:28), it remained under the independent control of the Jebusites. The tribe seems to have met the challenge of this position, becoming known for its skillful archers and slingers. 18:15), a place identified as Kefar Lifta (كفر لفتا), and situated on the left-hand side of the road as one enters Jerusalem. 37); whereas the Jahvist assigns this act to Judah (xliii.-xliv.). Almost the entire tribe of Benjamin was wiped out by the other Israelite tribes. In the Revelation, the tribe of Benjamin has its place among the eleven other tribes from each of which 12,000 servants of God were to be sealed (Rev 7:8). i. Benjamin, until that time spoken of as "a child" (Gen. xlii. 41). Buber, Wayesheb, 8).When Benjamin was detained as the alleged thief of the cup, Joseph pretended that Benjamin had been instigated by his brothers.
6-11, 59,434 men are given. xiv. Bright, History of Israel (1960), 142, 189, 213-216; F. F. Bruce, Israel and the Nations (1963), passim. Again, in v. 69, "And when they entered to Joseph, he took his brother to him." The story of Joseph is told in sura xii., and reference is made repeatedly to a particular brother of Joseph. 163). Stade ("Gesch. 4 (compare iv. The word Lifta is merely a corruption of the Hebrew name Nephtoah, and where a natural spring by that name still abounds.[17]. was spreading among them (Pirḳe R. El. The Rabbis lay stress on the name, "beloved of the Lord," by which Benjamin is distinguished (Deut. xii.
352, ed. The genealogical chapter which represents Benjamin as the father of a large family (xlvi. PLEASE PLAN ON ATTENDING AND ALSO SHARING YOUR TIME AND TALENTS BY PARTICIPATING IN OUR TALENT SHOW AND OUR AUCTION TO HELP OFFSET THE COST OF THIS EVENT FOR ALL. The Book of Judges recounts that the rape of the concubine of a member of the tribe of Levi, by a gang from the tribe of Benjamin resulted in a battle at Gibeah, in which the other tribes of Israel sought vengeance, and after which members of Benjamin were killed, including women and children. xxxviii.). Six hundred of the men from the tribe of Benjamin survived by hiding in a cave for four months. 1, x. ; Targ. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)(, "Besides the rejection of the Albrightian 'conquest' model, the general consensus among OT scholars is that the Book of Joshua has no value in the historical reconstruction. Baidawi explains that Benjamin is so specified because he was brother to Joseph on both sides. It is related that Benjamin (Sifre, Deut. 22, 23, 35). Tribe of Benjamin (Benjamin Okenna) released his last single in June of 2018. Paul reminds the Jews in Pisidian Antioch of the Benjamite origin of their first king (Acts 13:21). History.
The army commanded by Abner for Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, consisted mainly of Benjamites and was successful in mounting considerable opposition to the appointment of David as king (2 Sam 2:15ff.). : Because Benjamin did not bow down before Esau as did his brothers and his father (Gen. xxxiii. The tribe of Benjamin is described in Jacob's blessing (Gen. xlix. 27) is referred to the men of Shiloh who stole their wives (Judges xxi.) Then Joseph made him sit at his table.Thereafter he assigned houses to his brothers, two by two, but took Benjamin to his own house. He is counted among the four men who died by the poison of the serpent in Paradise; i.e., without sin of his own, the other three being Amram, the father of Moses; Jesse, the father of David; and Kileab, the son of David (Shab. 55b). The first king of this new entity was Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin (1 Samuel 9:1–2), which at the time was the smallest of the tribes.
Do you long for a deeper experience with the Lord? It is now an abandoned Arab village. 21), and therefore shared the destinies of Judah at the time of the restoration (Ezra iv. Joshua 18:21-27 gives a list of the many cities and towns contained within the territory of Benjamin and, included among them are Jebus (=Jerusalem) and Jericho. Some passages support this (1 Kings 12:20) while others state explicitly that Benjamin remained with Judah (12:21, 23; 2 Chron 11:10, 12, 23; 14:8; 15:2, 9, etc.). ), Joseph makes himself known to Benjamin before his reconciliation with the other brothers. When the southern kingdom was destroyed in the early sixth century BCE, Benjamin as an organized tribe faded from history.
21 [20]). [13] The Babylonian Talmud names three of these cities, all of which were formerly enclosed by a wall, and belonged to the tribe of Benjamin: Lydda (Lod), Ono (Kafr 'Ana),[14][15] and Gei Ha-ḥarashim. In the period of the judges, they feature in an episode in which a civil war results in their near-extinction as a tribe. They decided to allow these 600 men to carry on the tribe of Benjamin, but no one was willing to give their daughter in marriage to them because they had vowed not to. His intention was to try them and thus to learn whether they would act in a brotherly manner toward Benjamin if he were in danger of losing his liberty. The text refers several times to the Benjaminite warriors as "men of valour"[2] despite their defeat. Benjamin, Joseph's brother, took no part in the selling of Joseph (Sifre, Deut.
To Joseph's astonishment Benjamin declared that the man on the throne was his brother, and Joseph revealed himself to Benjamin, telling him what he meant to do with the brothers.
and Tan., Wayeḥi, 14; so also in the original text of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs [Benjamin ii]; whereas a Christian interpolation refers it to Paul). 21-25); but this was due to God's anger against all Israel because they had attacked all Benjamin on account of the crime of an individual, and at the same time quietly tolerated the idolatry which Micah (Judges xvii.)
According to another Haggadah (known to so early a work as the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, Benjamin ii. [19] After the breakup of the United Monarchy, Jerusalem continued as the capital of the southern Kingdom of Judah. In the genealogies of the restoration in the OT, in the Apoc., and in the NT, Benjamin generally is used to indicate personal descent rather than tribal territory (e.g. According to some, is equivalent to ("son of days"), because Benjamin was born to his father in his old age (Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, Benjamin i. υἱὸσ ἡμερῶν; Midrash Leḳaḥ-Ṭob; and Rashi, ed.
From that time on Benjamin's population lagged far behind the other tribes, and they were the smallest tribe in Israel at the time one of their members, Saul, was made the first king of Israel (I Samuel 9:21). At first the intention of the other tribes was to efface Benjamin completely, since the number of twelve tribes could be preserved through Ephraim and Manasseh; but they remembered God's promise to Jacob shortly before Benjamin's birth (Gen. xxxv. However the question of the western border is settled, Benjamite territory was strategically located for warfare, the main highway from N to S passing through it. xi. 8-10). The Tribe of Benjamin, located to the north of Judah but to the south of the northern Kingdom of Israel, is significant in biblical narratives as a source of various Israelite leaders, including the first Israelite king, Saul, as well as earlier tribal leaders in the period of the Judges. Generally, Benjamin’s territory lay between that of Judah on the S and that of the house of Joseph on the north. 4, "Ereẓ Yemini"), denoting the people living to the south or right of the Ephraimite highland; the story of Benjamin's birth in Canaan being taken as reflecting in mythical form the fact of its having branched off from the tribe of Joseph after the other tribes had settled in their various territories (Judges i. In the Blessing of Jacob, Benjamin is referred to as "a ravenous wolf";[8] traditional interpretations often considered this to refer to the might of a specific member of the tribe, either the champion Ehud, king Saul, or Mordecai of the Esther narrative, or in Christian circles, the apostle Paul. The tribe of Benjamin is described in Jacob's blessing (Gen. xlix. 56a and art. In I Chron.
There seems to be no truly satisfactory resolution of the problem of the western boundary of Benjamin.
52, ed. R., lntroduction, 33).
New International Version (NIV), Encyclopedia of The Bible – Tribe of Benjamin. Judges 1:21 points to the city being within the territory of Benjamin, while Joshua 15:63 implies that the city was within the territory of Judah.
The name "Benjamin" is given various meanings by the Rabbis. All except Judah followed him and Joab pursued him on behalf of David. xlii., xliii. ), which bears evidences of very late composition and has many legendary features, such as exaggeration of numbers and modes of warfare, has been rather too rashly declared to be a late invention inserted with the intention of covering up atrocities perpetrated by the tribe of Judah under King David against the kinsmen of Saul (Güdemann, "Monatsschrift," 1869, p. 357; Geiger, "Jüd. In spite of their wrong-doing the Benjamites were at first victorious (Judges xx. 7). Bilgah; also Herzfeld, "Gesch. 12). In the desert, where Benjamin formed part of the camp of the sons of Joseph, the tribe counted 35,400 warriors, and later on 45,600 men (Num.
xlii. The day on which the reconciliation took place between the tribes is said to have been the fifteenth of Ab, and for this reason it was made a festive day (ib. but Jacob did not beget you, nor Rachel bear you.". 22). Some have thought that the origin of the tribe is to be found in the Binu (or Maru) yamina of the 18th cent. 17, 18). According to Genesis, Benjamin was the result of a painful birth in which his mother died, naming him Ben-Oni, "son of my pain," immediately before her death. The story of Benjamin in Genesis is drawn from three different sources: The Elohist, who wrote the story of Benjamin's birth (Gen. xxxv. It gave the nation its first king, in the person of Saul, son of Kish (I Sam. 21 [20]). 4, 15; xliv. Rehoboam evidently managed to unite Benjamin, or at least a portion of it, together with Judah, so the capital could be held. In geographical terms, the term Benjamin can be read as "son of the south" from the perspective of the northern Kingdom of Israel, as the Benjamite territory was at the southern edge of the northern kingdom.[1].
This tribe was almost exterminated in an ancient Israelite civil war in which the Benjaminites were sufficiently fearless and foolhardy to fight all the other tribes at once. The blessing of Moses (Deut. 40, xii. Thus Shimei, the son of Gera, who was of the house of Saul, when he saw David and his men fleeing from Absalom, cursed him, raining dust and stones on his head (16:5ff.). ; "Sefer ha-Yashar," Wayishlaḥ, ib.
On the accession of Rehoboam, David's grandson, in c. 930 BCE the northern tribes split from the House of David to constitute the northern Kingdom of Israel. ", "It behooves us to ask, in spite of the fact that the overwhelming consensus of modern scholarship is that Joshua is a pious fiction composed by the deuteronomistic school, how does and how has the Jewish community dealt with these foundational narratives, saturated as they are with acts of violence against others? Though Joshua allocated Bethel to Benjamin, by the time of the prophetess Deborah, Bethel is described as being in the land of the Tribe of Ephraim (Judges 4:5).
Although Jerusalem was in the territory allocated to the tribe of Benjamin (Joshua 18:28), it remained under the independent control of the Jebusites. The tribe seems to have met the challenge of this position, becoming known for its skillful archers and slingers. 18:15), a place identified as Kefar Lifta (كفر لفتا), and situated on the left-hand side of the road as one enters Jerusalem. 37); whereas the Jahvist assigns this act to Judah (xliii.-xliv.). Almost the entire tribe of Benjamin was wiped out by the other Israelite tribes. In the Revelation, the tribe of Benjamin has its place among the eleven other tribes from each of which 12,000 servants of God were to be sealed (Rev 7:8). i. Benjamin, until that time spoken of as "a child" (Gen. xlii. 41). Buber, Wayesheb, 8).When Benjamin was detained as the alleged thief of the cup, Joseph pretended that Benjamin had been instigated by his brothers.
6-11, 59,434 men are given. xiv. Bright, History of Israel (1960), 142, 189, 213-216; F. F. Bruce, Israel and the Nations (1963), passim. Again, in v. 69, "And when they entered to Joseph, he took his brother to him." The story of Joseph is told in sura xii., and reference is made repeatedly to a particular brother of Joseph. 163). Stade ("Gesch. 4 (compare iv. The word Lifta is merely a corruption of the Hebrew name Nephtoah, and where a natural spring by that name still abounds.[17]. was spreading among them (Pirḳe R. El. The Rabbis lay stress on the name, "beloved of the Lord," by which Benjamin is distinguished (Deut. xii.
352, ed. The genealogical chapter which represents Benjamin as the father of a large family (xlvi. PLEASE PLAN ON ATTENDING AND ALSO SHARING YOUR TIME AND TALENTS BY PARTICIPATING IN OUR TALENT SHOW AND OUR AUCTION TO HELP OFFSET THE COST OF THIS EVENT FOR ALL. The Book of Judges recounts that the rape of the concubine of a member of the tribe of Levi, by a gang from the tribe of Benjamin resulted in a battle at Gibeah, in which the other tribes of Israel sought vengeance, and after which members of Benjamin were killed, including women and children. xxxviii.). Six hundred of the men from the tribe of Benjamin survived by hiding in a cave for four months. 1, x. ; Targ. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)(, "Besides the rejection of the Albrightian 'conquest' model, the general consensus among OT scholars is that the Book of Joshua has no value in the historical reconstruction. Baidawi explains that Benjamin is so specified because he was brother to Joseph on both sides. It is related that Benjamin (Sifre, Deut. 22, 23, 35). Tribe of Benjamin (Benjamin Okenna) released his last single in June of 2018. Paul reminds the Jews in Pisidian Antioch of the Benjamite origin of their first king (Acts 13:21). History.
The army commanded by Abner for Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, consisted mainly of Benjamites and was successful in mounting considerable opposition to the appointment of David as king (2 Sam 2:15ff.). : Because Benjamin did not bow down before Esau as did his brothers and his father (Gen. xxxiii. The tribe of Benjamin is described in Jacob's blessing (Gen. xlix. 27) is referred to the men of Shiloh who stole their wives (Judges xxi.) Then Joseph made him sit at his table.Thereafter he assigned houses to his brothers, two by two, but took Benjamin to his own house. He is counted among the four men who died by the poison of the serpent in Paradise; i.e., without sin of his own, the other three being Amram, the father of Moses; Jesse, the father of David; and Kileab, the son of David (Shab. 55b). The first king of this new entity was Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin (1 Samuel 9:1–2), which at the time was the smallest of the tribes.
Do you long for a deeper experience with the Lord? It is now an abandoned Arab village. 21), and therefore shared the destinies of Judah at the time of the restoration (Ezra iv. Joshua 18:21-27 gives a list of the many cities and towns contained within the territory of Benjamin and, included among them are Jebus (=Jerusalem) and Jericho. Some passages support this (1 Kings 12:20) while others state explicitly that Benjamin remained with Judah (12:21, 23; 2 Chron 11:10, 12, 23; 14:8; 15:2, 9, etc.). ), Joseph makes himself known to Benjamin before his reconciliation with the other brothers. When the southern kingdom was destroyed in the early sixth century BCE, Benjamin as an organized tribe faded from history.
21 [20]). [13] The Babylonian Talmud names three of these cities, all of which were formerly enclosed by a wall, and belonged to the tribe of Benjamin: Lydda (Lod), Ono (Kafr 'Ana),[14][15] and Gei Ha-ḥarashim. In the period of the judges, they feature in an episode in which a civil war results in their near-extinction as a tribe. They decided to allow these 600 men to carry on the tribe of Benjamin, but no one was willing to give their daughter in marriage to them because they had vowed not to. His intention was to try them and thus to learn whether they would act in a brotherly manner toward Benjamin if he were in danger of losing his liberty. The text refers several times to the Benjaminite warriors as "men of valour"[2] despite their defeat. Benjamin, Joseph's brother, took no part in the selling of Joseph (Sifre, Deut.
To Joseph's astonishment Benjamin declared that the man on the throne was his brother, and Joseph revealed himself to Benjamin, telling him what he meant to do with the brothers.
and Tan., Wayeḥi, 14; so also in the original text of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs [Benjamin ii]; whereas a Christian interpolation refers it to Paul). 21-25); but this was due to God's anger against all Israel because they had attacked all Benjamin on account of the crime of an individual, and at the same time quietly tolerated the idolatry which Micah (Judges xvii.)
According to another Haggadah (known to so early a work as the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, Benjamin ii. [19] After the breakup of the United Monarchy, Jerusalem continued as the capital of the southern Kingdom of Judah. In the genealogies of the restoration in the OT, in the Apoc., and in the NT, Benjamin generally is used to indicate personal descent rather than tribal territory (e.g. According to some, is equivalent to ("son of days"), because Benjamin was born to his father in his old age (Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, Benjamin i. υἱὸσ ἡμερῶν; Midrash Leḳaḥ-Ṭob; and Rashi, ed.
From that time on Benjamin's population lagged far behind the other tribes, and they were the smallest tribe in Israel at the time one of their members, Saul, was made the first king of Israel (I Samuel 9:21). At first the intention of the other tribes was to efface Benjamin completely, since the number of twelve tribes could be preserved through Ephraim and Manasseh; but they remembered God's promise to Jacob shortly before Benjamin's birth (Gen. xxxv. However the question of the western border is settled, Benjamite territory was strategically located for warfare, the main highway from N to S passing through it. xi. 8-10). The Tribe of Benjamin, located to the north of Judah but to the south of the northern Kingdom of Israel, is significant in biblical narratives as a source of various Israelite leaders, including the first Israelite king, Saul, as well as earlier tribal leaders in the period of the Judges. Generally, Benjamin’s territory lay between that of Judah on the S and that of the house of Joseph on the north. 4, "Ereẓ Yemini"), denoting the people living to the south or right of the Ephraimite highland; the story of Benjamin's birth in Canaan being taken as reflecting in mythical form the fact of its having branched off from the tribe of Joseph after the other tribes had settled in their various territories (Judges i. In the Blessing of Jacob, Benjamin is referred to as "a ravenous wolf";[8] traditional interpretations often considered this to refer to the might of a specific member of the tribe, either the champion Ehud, king Saul, or Mordecai of the Esther narrative, or in Christian circles, the apostle Paul. The tribe of Benjamin is described in Jacob's blessing (Gen. xlix. 56a and art. In I Chron.
By the time of the division of the Promised Land, leadership of the tribe of Benjamin had fallen to Elidad the son of Chislon (34:21). This makes Benjamin and Joseph closer to each other than any other tribe, and in the end time it is no wonder that we see Benjamin dwelling with Joseph "between his shoulders." 400 virgin women from the tribe of Machir were found and given in marriage to the Benjaminite men. His comparison to the ravening wolf (Cant. The descendants of Benjamin, it is true, did not always show themselves worthy of their ancestor, especially in connection with the incident at Gibeah (Judges xix.).
There seems to be no truly satisfactory resolution of the problem of the western boundary of Benjamin.
52, ed. R., lntroduction, 33).
New International Version (NIV), Encyclopedia of The Bible – Tribe of Benjamin. Judges 1:21 points to the city being within the territory of Benjamin, while Joshua 15:63 implies that the city was within the territory of Judah.
The name "Benjamin" is given various meanings by the Rabbis. All except Judah followed him and Joab pursued him on behalf of David. xlii., xliii. ), which bears evidences of very late composition and has many legendary features, such as exaggeration of numbers and modes of warfare, has been rather too rashly declared to be a late invention inserted with the intention of covering up atrocities perpetrated by the tribe of Judah under King David against the kinsmen of Saul (Güdemann, "Monatsschrift," 1869, p. 357; Geiger, "Jüd. In spite of their wrong-doing the Benjamites were at first victorious (Judges xx. 7). Bilgah; also Herzfeld, "Gesch. 12). In the desert, where Benjamin formed part of the camp of the sons of Joseph, the tribe counted 35,400 warriors, and later on 45,600 men (Num.
xlii. The day on which the reconciliation took place between the tribes is said to have been the fifteenth of Ab, and for this reason it was made a festive day (ib. but Jacob did not beget you, nor Rachel bear you.". 22). Some have thought that the origin of the tribe is to be found in the Binu (or Maru) yamina of the 18th cent. 17, 18). According to Genesis, Benjamin was the result of a painful birth in which his mother died, naming him Ben-Oni, "son of my pain," immediately before her death. The story of Benjamin in Genesis is drawn from three different sources: The Elohist, who wrote the story of Benjamin's birth (Gen. xxxv. It gave the nation its first king, in the person of Saul, son of Kish (I Sam. 21 [20]). 4, 15; xliv. Rehoboam evidently managed to unite Benjamin, or at least a portion of it, together with Judah, so the capital could be held. In geographical terms, the term Benjamin can be read as "son of the south" from the perspective of the northern Kingdom of Israel, as the Benjamite territory was at the southern edge of the northern kingdom.[1].
This tribe was almost exterminated in an ancient Israelite civil war in which the Benjaminites were sufficiently fearless and foolhardy to fight all the other tribes at once. The blessing of Moses (Deut. 40, xii. Thus Shimei, the son of Gera, who was of the house of Saul, when he saw David and his men fleeing from Absalom, cursed him, raining dust and stones on his head (16:5ff.). ; "Sefer ha-Yashar," Wayishlaḥ, ib.
On the accession of Rehoboam, David's grandson, in c. 930 BCE the northern tribes split from the House of David to constitute the northern Kingdom of Israel. ", "It behooves us to ask, in spite of the fact that the overwhelming consensus of modern scholarship is that Joshua is a pious fiction composed by the deuteronomistic school, how does and how has the Jewish community dealt with these foundational narratives, saturated as they are with acts of violence against others? Though Joshua allocated Bethel to Benjamin, by the time of the prophetess Deborah, Bethel is described as being in the land of the Tribe of Ephraim (Judges 4:5).
Although Jerusalem was in the territory allocated to the tribe of Benjamin (Joshua 18:28), it remained under the independent control of the Jebusites. The tribe seems to have met the challenge of this position, becoming known for its skillful archers and slingers. 18:15), a place identified as Kefar Lifta (كفر لفتا), and situated on the left-hand side of the road as one enters Jerusalem. 37); whereas the Jahvist assigns this act to Judah (xliii.-xliv.). Almost the entire tribe of Benjamin was wiped out by the other Israelite tribes. In the Revelation, the tribe of Benjamin has its place among the eleven other tribes from each of which 12,000 servants of God were to be sealed (Rev 7:8). i. Benjamin, until that time spoken of as "a child" (Gen. xlii. 41). Buber, Wayesheb, 8).When Benjamin was detained as the alleged thief of the cup, Joseph pretended that Benjamin had been instigated by his brothers.
6-11, 59,434 men are given. xiv. Bright, History of Israel (1960), 142, 189, 213-216; F. F. Bruce, Israel and the Nations (1963), passim. Again, in v. 69, "And when they entered to Joseph, he took his brother to him." The story of Joseph is told in sura xii., and reference is made repeatedly to a particular brother of Joseph. 163). Stade ("Gesch. 4 (compare iv. The word Lifta is merely a corruption of the Hebrew name Nephtoah, and where a natural spring by that name still abounds.[17]. was spreading among them (Pirḳe R. El. The Rabbis lay stress on the name, "beloved of the Lord," by which Benjamin is distinguished (Deut. xii.
352, ed. The genealogical chapter which represents Benjamin as the father of a large family (xlvi. PLEASE PLAN ON ATTENDING AND ALSO SHARING YOUR TIME AND TALENTS BY PARTICIPATING IN OUR TALENT SHOW AND OUR AUCTION TO HELP OFFSET THE COST OF THIS EVENT FOR ALL. The Book of Judges recounts that the rape of the concubine of a member of the tribe of Levi, by a gang from the tribe of Benjamin resulted in a battle at Gibeah, in which the other tribes of Israel sought vengeance, and after which members of Benjamin were killed, including women and children. xxxviii.). Six hundred of the men from the tribe of Benjamin survived by hiding in a cave for four months. 1, x. ; Targ. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)(, "Besides the rejection of the Albrightian 'conquest' model, the general consensus among OT scholars is that the Book of Joshua has no value in the historical reconstruction. Baidawi explains that Benjamin is so specified because he was brother to Joseph on both sides. It is related that Benjamin (Sifre, Deut. 22, 23, 35). Tribe of Benjamin (Benjamin Okenna) released his last single in June of 2018. Paul reminds the Jews in Pisidian Antioch of the Benjamite origin of their first king (Acts 13:21). History.
The army commanded by Abner for Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, consisted mainly of Benjamites and was successful in mounting considerable opposition to the appointment of David as king (2 Sam 2:15ff.). : Because Benjamin did not bow down before Esau as did his brothers and his father (Gen. xxxiii. The tribe of Benjamin is described in Jacob's blessing (Gen. xlix. 27) is referred to the men of Shiloh who stole their wives (Judges xxi.) Then Joseph made him sit at his table.Thereafter he assigned houses to his brothers, two by two, but took Benjamin to his own house. He is counted among the four men who died by the poison of the serpent in Paradise; i.e., without sin of his own, the other three being Amram, the father of Moses; Jesse, the father of David; and Kileab, the son of David (Shab. 55b). The first king of this new entity was Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin (1 Samuel 9:1–2), which at the time was the smallest of the tribes.
Do you long for a deeper experience with the Lord? It is now an abandoned Arab village. 21), and therefore shared the destinies of Judah at the time of the restoration (Ezra iv. Joshua 18:21-27 gives a list of the many cities and towns contained within the territory of Benjamin and, included among them are Jebus (=Jerusalem) and Jericho. Some passages support this (1 Kings 12:20) while others state explicitly that Benjamin remained with Judah (12:21, 23; 2 Chron 11:10, 12, 23; 14:8; 15:2, 9, etc.). ), Joseph makes himself known to Benjamin before his reconciliation with the other brothers. When the southern kingdom was destroyed in the early sixth century BCE, Benjamin as an organized tribe faded from history.
21 [20]). [13] The Babylonian Talmud names three of these cities, all of which were formerly enclosed by a wall, and belonged to the tribe of Benjamin: Lydda (Lod), Ono (Kafr 'Ana),[14][15] and Gei Ha-ḥarashim. In the period of the judges, they feature in an episode in which a civil war results in their near-extinction as a tribe. They decided to allow these 600 men to carry on the tribe of Benjamin, but no one was willing to give their daughter in marriage to them because they had vowed not to. His intention was to try them and thus to learn whether they would act in a brotherly manner toward Benjamin if he were in danger of losing his liberty. The text refers several times to the Benjaminite warriors as "men of valour"[2] despite their defeat. Benjamin, Joseph's brother, took no part in the selling of Joseph (Sifre, Deut.
To Joseph's astonishment Benjamin declared that the man on the throne was his brother, and Joseph revealed himself to Benjamin, telling him what he meant to do with the brothers.
and Tan., Wayeḥi, 14; so also in the original text of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs [Benjamin ii]; whereas a Christian interpolation refers it to Paul). 21-25); but this was due to God's anger against all Israel because they had attacked all Benjamin on account of the crime of an individual, and at the same time quietly tolerated the idolatry which Micah (Judges xvii.)
According to another Haggadah (known to so early a work as the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, Benjamin ii. [19] After the breakup of the United Monarchy, Jerusalem continued as the capital of the southern Kingdom of Judah. In the genealogies of the restoration in the OT, in the Apoc., and in the NT, Benjamin generally is used to indicate personal descent rather than tribal territory (e.g. According to some, is equivalent to ("son of days"), because Benjamin was born to his father in his old age (Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, Benjamin i. υἱὸσ ἡμερῶν; Midrash Leḳaḥ-Ṭob; and Rashi, ed.
From that time on Benjamin's population lagged far behind the other tribes, and they were the smallest tribe in Israel at the time one of their members, Saul, was made the first king of Israel (I Samuel 9:21). At first the intention of the other tribes was to efface Benjamin completely, since the number of twelve tribes could be preserved through Ephraim and Manasseh; but they remembered God's promise to Jacob shortly before Benjamin's birth (Gen. xxxv. However the question of the western border is settled, Benjamite territory was strategically located for warfare, the main highway from N to S passing through it. xi. 8-10). The Tribe of Benjamin, located to the north of Judah but to the south of the northern Kingdom of Israel, is significant in biblical narratives as a source of various Israelite leaders, including the first Israelite king, Saul, as well as earlier tribal leaders in the period of the Judges. Generally, Benjamin’s territory lay between that of Judah on the S and that of the house of Joseph on the north. 4, "Ereẓ Yemini"), denoting the people living to the south or right of the Ephraimite highland; the story of Benjamin's birth in Canaan being taken as reflecting in mythical form the fact of its having branched off from the tribe of Joseph after the other tribes had settled in their various territories (Judges i. In the Blessing of Jacob, Benjamin is referred to as "a ravenous wolf";[8] traditional interpretations often considered this to refer to the might of a specific member of the tribe, either the champion Ehud, king Saul, or Mordecai of the Esther narrative, or in Christian circles, the apostle Paul. The tribe of Benjamin is described in Jacob's blessing (Gen. xlix. 56a and art. In I Chron.