Dict: smith - BENJAMIN

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BENJAMIN - B>@ - (son of the right hand, fortunate). The youngest of the children of Jacob. His birth took place on the road between Bethel and Bethlehem, near the latter, B.C. 1729. His mother, Rachel, died in the act of giving him birth, naming him with her last breath Ben-oni (son of my sorrow). This was by Jacob changed into Benjamin. kjv@Genesis:35:16-18) Until the journeys of Jacob’s sons and Jacob himself into Egypt we hear nothing of Benjamin. Nothing personal is known of him. Henceforward the history of Benjamin is the history of the tribe. A man of the tribe of Benjamin, son of bilhan, and the head of a family of warriors. ( kjv@1Chronicles:7:10) One of the "sons of Harim," an Israelite in the time of Ezra who had married a foreign wife. kjv@Ezra:10:32)

BENJAMIN, THE TRIBE OF - B>@ - The contrast between the warlike character of the tribe and the peaceful image of its progenitor comes out in many scattered notices. Benjamin was the only tribe which seems to have pursued archery to any purpose, and their skill in the bow, ( kjv@1Samuel:20:20 kjv@1Samuel:20:36 2 Samuel kjv@1:232; 1Chronicles:8:40 kjv@1Chronicles:12:2; kjv@2Chronicles:17:17) and the sling, kjv@Judges:20:16) is celebrated. The dreadful deed recorded in Judges:19 was defended by Benjamin. Later the tribe seems, however, to assume another position, as Ramah, ( kjv@1Samuel:9:12) etc., Mizpeh, ( kjv@1Samuel:7:5) Bethel and Gibeon, (Kings:3:4) were all in the land of Benjamin. After the struggles and contests which followed the death of Saul, the history of Benjamin becomes merged in that of the southern kingdom.

BENJAMIN, THE LAND OF - B>@ - The proximity of Benjamin to Ephraim during the march to the promised land was maintained in the territory allotted to each. That given to Benjamin formed almost a parallelogram, of about 26 miles in length by 12 in breadth, lying between Ephraim, the Jordan, Judah and Dan. The general level of this part of Palestine is not less than 2000 feet above the Mediterranean or than 3000 feet above the valley of the Jordan, the surrounding country including a large number of eminences
almost every one of which has borne some part in the history of the tribe
and many torrent beds and deep ravines.

BENJAMIN, HIGH GATE OR GATE OF - B>@ - kjv@Jeremiah:20:2 kjv@Jeremiah:37:13 kjv@Jeremiah:38:7 ; kjv@Zechariah:14:10) JERUSALEM