Benjamin (patriarch)

All 40 verses in Judges, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Judges

• Judges 1:21

  The Benjamites, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the Benjamites.

• Judges 5:14

  Some came from Ephraim, with their roots in Amalek; Benjamin came with your people after you. The commanders came down from Machir, the bearers of the marshal’s staff from Zebulun.

• Judges 10:9

  The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in deep distress.

• Judges 19:14

  So they continued on their journey, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.

• Judges 20:3

  (Meanwhile the Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this wicked thing happen?”

• Judges 20:4

  So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.

• Judges 20:10

  We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”

• Judges 20:12

  And the tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this wickedness that has occurred among you?

• Judges 20:13

  Hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil.” But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites.

• Judges 20:14

  And from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.

• Judges 20:15

  On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.

• Judges 20:17

  The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mobilized 400,000 swordsmen, each one an experienced warrior.

• Judges 20:18

  The Israelites set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, “Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” “Judah will be first,” the LORD replied.

• Judges 20:20

  And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took up their battle positions at Gibeah.

• Judges 20:21

  And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.

• Judges 20:23

  They went up and wept before the LORD until evening, inquiring of Him, “Should we again draw near for battle against our brothers the Benjamites?” And the LORD answered, “Go up against them.”

• Judges 20:24

  On the second day the Israelites advanced against the Benjamites.

• Judges 20:25

  That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

• Judges 20:28

  and Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, served before it.) The Israelites asked, “Should we again go out to battle against our brothers the Benjamites, or should we stop?” The LORD answered, “Fight, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”

• Judges 20:30

  On the third day the Israelites went up against the Benjamites and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as they had done before.

• Judges 20:31

  The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.

• Judges 20:32

  “We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”

• Judges 20:35

  The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.

• Judges 20:36

  Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.

• Judges 20:39

  the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”

• Judges 20:41

  Then the men of Israel turned back on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had come upon them.

• Judges 20:44

  And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.

• Judges 20:46

  That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.

• Judges 20:48

  And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.

• Judges 21:1

  Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”

• Judges 21:6

  And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.

• Judges 21:13

  Then the whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjamites who were at the rock of Rimmon.

• Judges 21:14

  And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.

• Judges 21:15

  The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.

• Judges 21:16

  Then the elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”

• Judges 21:17

  They added, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.

• Judges 21:18

  But we cannot give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to a Benjamite.”

• Judges 21:20

  So they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards

• Judges 21:21

  and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

• Judges 21:23

  The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.

Events the dataset lists Benjamin (patriarch) as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

1. c. 1739 BC
   Rachel dies giving birth to BenjaminGenesis 35:16–27 · at Ephrath

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.