Benjamin

• Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin

Benjamin (Person)· Ben-Oni· Benjaminite, Benjamite

Father

Israel

Mother

Rachel

Siblings

Asher· Dan· Dinah· Gad· Issachar· Joseph· Judah· Levi· Naphtali· Reuben· Simeon· Zebulun

Children

Ahiram· Ard· Ashbel· Becher· Bela· Gera· Huppim· Jediael· Muppim· Naaman· Rosh

• Βενιαμίν·Benjamin
• בֶּן־אוֹנִ֑י·Ben-onimeans “son of my sorrow, or pain”
• בִּנְיָמִין·Benjamin
• בֶּן־יְמִינִי·Benjamin
• יָמִין·Jaminmeans “right hand; south wind”
• יְמִינִי·Jeminite

Includes 4 verses that refer to Benjamin without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

1. 2 Samuel 3:19בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
   Abner also spoke to the Benjamites. Then he went to Hebron to tell David all that seemed good to Israel and to the whole house of Benjamin.
2. 2 Samuel 4:2בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
   Saul’s son had two men who were leaders of raiding parties. One was named Baanah and the other Rechab; they were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite of the tribe of Benjamin—Beeroth is considered part of Benjamin,
3. 2 Samuel 16:11בֶּן־יְמִינִי · Benjamin
   Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.
4. 2 Samuel 19:16בֶּן־יְמִינִי · Benjamin
   Then Shimei son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David,
5. 2 Samuel 19:17בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
   …along with a thousand men of Benjamin, as well as Ziba the steward of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed down to the Jordan before the king
6. 2 Samuel 20:1יְמִינִי · Jeminite
   Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”
7. 2 Samuel 21:14בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
   And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.
8. 2 Samuel 23:29בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
   Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites,
9. 1 Kings 2:8בֶּן־יְמִינִי · Benjamin
   Keep an eye on Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim who is with you. He called down bitter curses against me on the day I went to Mahanaim, but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will never put you to the sword.’
10. 1 Kings 4:18בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Shimei son of Ela in Benjamin;
11. 1 Kings 12:21בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
12. 1 Kings 12:23בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    “Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people
13. 1 Kings 15:22בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Then King Asa summoned all the men of Judah, with no exceptions, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials King Asa built up Geba of Benjamin, as well as Mizpah.
14. 1 Chronicles 2:2בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
15. 1 Chronicles 6:60בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    And from the tribe of Benjamin they were given Gibeon, Geba, Alemeth, and Anathoth, together with their pasturelands. So they had thirteen cities in all among their families.
16. 1 Chronicles 6:65בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    They assigned by lot the cities named above from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.
17. 1 Chronicles 7:6בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    The three sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.
18. 1 Chronicles 8:1בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Benjamin was the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third,
19. 1 Chronicles 8:40בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and they had many sons and grandsons—150 in all. All these were the descendants of Benjamin.
20. 1 Chronicles 9:3בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Some of the descendants of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem:
21. 1 Chronicles 9:7בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    From the Benjamites: Sallu son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah;
22. 1 Chronicles 11:31בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
23. 1 Chronicles 12:2בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    …they were archers using both the right and left hands to sling stones and shoot arrows; and they were Saul’s kinsmen from Benjamin):
24. 1 Chronicles 12:16בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Other Benjamites and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold.
25. 1 Chronicles 12:29בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    From Benjamin, the kinsmen of Saul: 3,000, most of whom had remained loyal to the house of Saul up to that time.
26. 1 Chronicles 21:6בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the count, because the king’s command was detestable to him.
27. 1 Chronicles 27:12בֶּן־יְמִינִי · Benjamin
    The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer the Anathothite, a Benjamite. There were 24,000 men in his division.
28. 1 Chronicles 27:21בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    …over the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead was Iddo son of Zechariah; over Benjamin was Jaasiel son of Abner;
29. 2 Chronicles 11:1בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
30. 2 Chronicles 11:3בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    “Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah and all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin
31. 2 Chronicles 11:10בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.
32. 2 Chronicles 11:12בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    He also put shields and spears in all the cities and strengthened them greatly. So Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
33. 2 Chronicles 11:23בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Rehoboam also acted wisely by dispersing some of his sons throughout the districts of Judah and Benjamin, and to all the fortified cities. He gave them abundant provisions and sought many wives for them.
34. 2 Chronicles 14:8בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin bearing small shields and drawing the bow. All these were mighty men of valor.
35. 2 Chronicles 15:2בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
36. 2 Chronicles 15:8בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    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. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.
37. 2 Chronicles 15:9בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    And he assembled all Judah and Benjamin, along with those from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had settled among them, for great numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
38. 2 Chronicles 17:17בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    From Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, and with him 200,000 armed with bows and shields;
39. 2 Chronicles 25:5בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.
40. 2 Chronicles 31:1בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance 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 throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.
41. 2 Chronicles 34:9בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    So they went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites who guarded the doors had collected from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and from the people of Jerusalem.
42. 2 Chronicles 34:32בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand in agreement to it. So all the people of Jerusalem carried out the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
43. Ezra 1:5בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
44. Ezra 4:1בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,
45. Ezra 10:9בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling regarding this matter and because of the heavy rain.
46. Nehemiah 11:4בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    …while some of the descendants of Judah and Benjamin settled in Jerusalem.) From the descendants of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, a descendant of Perez;
47. Nehemiah 11:7בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    From the descendants of Benjamin: Sallu son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah;
48. Nehemiah 11:31בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    The descendants of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel with its villages;
49. Nehemiah 11:36בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    And some divisions of the Levites of Judah settled in Benjamin.
50. Esther 2:5בֶּן־יְמִינִי · Benjamin
    Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.
51. Psalm 7:1בֶּן־יְמִינִי · Benjamin
    A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite. O LORD my God, I take refuge in You; save me and deliver me from all my pursuers,
52. Psalm 68:27בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    There is Benjamin, the youngest, ruling them, the princes of Judah in their company, the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.
53. Psalm 80:2בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    …before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Rally Your mighty power and come to save us.
54. Jeremiah 1:1בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
55. Jeremiah 6:1בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    “Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.
56. Jeremiah 17:26בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    And people will come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, and from the foothills, the hill country, and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.
57. Jeremiah 32:8בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard 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.
58. Jeremiah 32:44בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD.”
59. Jeremiah 33:13בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    In the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the LORD.
60. Jeremiah 37:12בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Jeremiah started to leave Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to claim his portion there among the people.
61. Ezekiel 48:22בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    So the Levitical property and the city property will lie in the center of the area belonging to the prince—the area between the borders of Judah and Benjamin.
62. Ezekiel 48:23בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    As for the rest of the tribes: Benjamin will have one portion extending from the east side to the west side.
63. Ezekiel 48:24בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Simeon will have one portion bordering the territory of Benjamin from east to west.
64. Ezekiel 48:32בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    On the east side, which will be 4,500 cubits long, there will be three gates: the gate of Joseph, the gate of Benjamin, and the gate of Dan.
65. Hosea 5:8בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; raise the battle cry in Beth-aven: Lead on, O Benjamin!
66. Obadiah 1:19בִּנְיָמִין · Benjamin
    Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau; those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
67. Acts 13:21Βενιαμίν · Benjamin
    Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.
68. Romans 11:1Βενιαμίν · Benjamin
    I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
69. Philippians 3:5Βενιαμίν · Benjamin
    …circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
70. Revelation 7:8Βενιαμίν · Benjamin
    …from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000, from the tribe of Joseph 12,000, and from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.