Tribe of Benjamin

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.
 * 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.

Descendants
Tribo de Benjamim