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Almost the entire tribe of Benjamin was wiped out by the other Israelites. Six hundred men from the tribe of Benjamin survived by hiding in a cave for four months. The text refers several times to the Benjaminite warriors as "men of valour" [3] despite their defeat. The other Israelite tribes were grieved at the near loss of the tribe of Benjamin.
Mosaic depicting the twelve tribes and their Hebrew names, with symbolic images. *Asher: a tree *Dan: Scales of justice *Judah: Kinnor, cithara and crown, symbolising King David *Reuben: Mandrake (Genesis 30:14) *Joseph: Palm tree and sheaves of wheat, symbolizing his time in Egypt *Naphtali: gazelle (Genesis 49:21)
Benjamin (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין Bīnyāmīn; "Son of (the) right") [2] was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twelfth and youngest son overall. In Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was also the progenitor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin.
Aphiah, of the tribe of Benjamin, was an ancestor of King Saul and of his commander Abner. According to Saul, his family was the least of the tribe of Benjamin. [101] A son of Shchorim, the son of Uzziel (descendant of Gera, son of Benjamin) and Matri (ancestor of Matrites and descendant of Belah, son of Benjamin). [citation needed]
A number of biblical scholars suspect that the Joseph tribes (including Benjamin) represent a second migration of Israelites to Israel, later than the main tribes, [33] specifically that it was only the Joseph tribes which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had ...
Delegation of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, bearing gifts to the Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser III, c. 840 BCE, on the Black Obelisk, British Museum. The scriptural basis for the idea of lost tribes is 2 Kings 17:6: "In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the ...
In the incident of the Levite's concubine, the men of Gibeah raped a woman. The other Israelite tribes met at the Mizpah of Benjamin, where they decided to 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 women. [6]
The Tomb of Benjamin was the traditional burial site of Benjamin according to Judaism, the twelfth and last son of Jacob. [1] On the other side of the bypass road there is also another Islamic shrine called "Nabi Sawarka".