Genesis 49:27
Benjamin is a hungry wolf. 1 In the morning he will devour the prey, 1 and in the evening he will divide the plunder.”
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Genesis 35:18As she was dying, with her dying breath she named him Ben-Oni, but his father called him Benjamin.
Numbers 23:24Look, the people rise like a lioness, 2 as a lion emerges and attacks. 1 He does not lie down until he eats his victim 2 and drinks the blood of what he has killed.”
Deuteronomy 33:12About Benjamin, Moses said: 1 The one loved by Yahweh lives in security beside him; 1 Yahweh shields him all the day long, 1 and he lives between Yahweh's arms.
Judges 20:21The people of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and they killed twenty-two thousand men of the army of Israel on that day.
1 Samuel 11:4The messengers came to Gibeah, where Saul lived, and told the people what had happened. All the people wept loudly.
1 Samuel 17:1Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle. They were gathered at Sokoh, which belongs to Judah. They had encamped between Sokoh and Azekah, in Ephes Dammim.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:23-28
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: 23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings… Read the whole commentary →