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The name "Benjamin" is given various meanings by the Rabbis. 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. Berliner, on Gen. xxxv. 18).
The rebelling Benjaminites killed about thirty in the highways and in the field. Anticipating another victory, they were unaware of the trap that had been set as the confederated Israelites appeared to retreat and the Benjaminites were drawn away from the city to the highways in pursuit, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
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.
The Israelites were the descendants of twelve sons of the biblical patriarch Jacob. Jacob also had at least one daughter, Dinah, whose descendants were not recognized as a tribe. The sons of Jacob were born in Padan-aram from different mothers, as follows: [4] The sons of Leah; Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun
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 ...
Benjamin is a popular given name for males, derived from Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין , Binyāmīn, translating as 'son of the right [hand]' in both Hebrew and Arabic languages, although in the Samaritan Pentateuch the name appears as Binyaamem: 'son of my days'.
According to the Book of Genesis, the Israelites were descendants of the sons of Jacob, who was renamed Israel after wrestling with an angel. His twelve male children become the ancestors of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Asher; Benjamin; Dan; Gad; Issachar; Joseph, which was split into two tribes descended from his sons: Tribe of Ephraim; Tribe ...
Jean Ribault (1520–1565), early colonizer of America, he and other Huguenot colonists were massacred by the Spanish for their faith. [440] Pierre-Paul Sirven (1709–1777), victim of persecution. [441]