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An account in Genesis explains the name of Benjamin due to the birth of the tribe's founder, Benjamin. 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.
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.
The Tribes of Dan; Gad; Asher and Naphtali: Ethiopian Jews, also known as Beta Israel, claim descent from the Tribe of Dan, whose members migrated south along with members of the tribes of Gad, Asher, and Naphtali, into the Kingdom of Kush, now Ethiopia and Sudan, [27] during the destruction of the First Temple.
The Matrites (Hebrew: מַּטְרִי Maṭrī) were one of several ancient Israelite clans from the Tribe of Benjamin. They were the clan of the family of King Saul. They are only mentioned once in the Bible: When the Israelites chose their first king, the lot fell upon the clan of Matri. [1] Nothing else is known for certain about them.
Gibeah of Benjamin, also Gibeah of Saul, is the most commonly mentioned of the 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 of the united Kingdom of Israel under king Saul .
Jabesh is mentioned in the biblical episode of the Levite's concubine, also known as the Benjamite War, during which eleven tribes of Israel had massacred the Tribe of Benjamin. The eleven tribes relented from wiping out the whole tribe, and decided that they needed to find wives for the 600 remaining Benjaminite men since all other people in ...
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".
The town is situated in the southern portion of the land associated with the tribe of Benjamin, and is identified within the village of Shuafat, to the north of Jerusalem. [ 2 ] Historical geographers largely identify the site as Bayt Nuba .