Tribe of Benjamin

Israel
The Tribes Reuben Simeon Levi Judah Dan Naphtali Gad Asher Issachar Zebulun Joseph Menasheh Ephraim Benjamin
Related topics United Kingdom of Israel Kingdom of Judah Kingdom of Israel Hasmonean kingdom Modern Israel

The tribe of Benjamin descends from Benjamin, the youngest son of Jacob. It has the following distinctions:

1. In the era of the Judges, the Benjamites became involved in a disastrous internecine war with the rest of the tribes, after a Levite's concubine had been brutally murdered. In that war, most of the Benjamite women were killed. The tribes remedied this first by giving the Benjamites a right-of-first-refusal on female prisoners of war taken in the Battle of Jabesh-gilead, and then "allowed" the Benjamites to seize what women they would from Shiloh at the time of the wine harvest. Judges 20-21
2. King Saul, first King of the United Kingdom, was a Benjamite.
3. The Benjamites were the only tribe to remain loyal to the tribe of Judah during the Great Revolt of the Ten Tribes. The Benjamites and Judah-ites continued as the Southern Kingdom
4. Saint Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, was a Benjamite. Romans 11:1

Descendants

Benjamin

Belah

Becher

Ashbel

Gera

Naaman

Rosh

Huppim

Ahiram

Jediael

Ehi

Muppim

Ard

Bilhan

Ehud

Naaman

Ahiah

Gera

Uzza

Ahihud

Jeush

Benjamin

Ehud

Chenaanah

Zethan

Tharshish

Ahishahar

Zemira

Eliezer

Omri

Abiah

Alameth

Joash

Elioenai

Jerimoth

Anathoth

Ard

Ezbon

Uzziel

Iri

Gera

Abishua

Naaman

Uzzi

Jerimoth

Addar

Abihud

Ahoah