27 (A)There is little Benjamin, their leader,
The princes of Judah and their [a]company,
The princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.

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  1. Psalm 68:27 throng

21 And Saul answered and said, (A)Am I not a Benjamite, of the (B)smallest of the tribes of Israel, and (C)my family the least of all the families of the [a]tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak like this to me?”

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  1. 1 Samuel 9:21 Lit. tribes

19 (A)say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Surely I will take (B)the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.” ’ 20 And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand (C)before their eyes.

21 “Then say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Surely (D)I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; 22 and (E)I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and (F)one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again. 23 (G)They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but (H)I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

24 (I)“David My servant shall be king over them, and (J)they shall all have one shepherd; (K)they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them. 25 (L)Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children’s children, (M)forever; and (N)My servant David shall be their prince forever. 26 Moreover I will [a]make (O)a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and (P)multiply them, and I will set My (Q)sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27 (R)My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be (S)their God, and they shall be My people.

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  1. Ezekiel 37:26 Lit. cut

13 Also (A)the envy of Ephraim shall depart,
And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
And Judah shall not harass Ephraim.

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Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine;
(A)Ephraim also is the [a]helmet for My head;
(B)Judah is My lawgiver.

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  1. Psalm 60:7 Lit. protection

The princes of the people have gathered together,
(A)The people of the God of Abraham.
(B)For the shields of the earth belong to God;
He is greatly exalted.

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12 The ninth captain for the ninth month was (A)Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

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And David (A)gathered all Israel together at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had prepared for it.

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29 of the sons of Benjamin, relatives of Saul, three thousand (until then (A)the greatest part of them had remained loyal to the house of Saul);

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16 Then some of the sons of Benjamin and Judah came to David at the stronghold.

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And the children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel today. What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters as wives?”

And they said, “What one is there from the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord?” And, in fact, no one had come to the camp from (A)Jabesh Gilead to the assembly. For when the people were counted, indeed, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead was there. 10 So the congregation sent out there twelve thousand of their most valiant men, and commanded them, saying, (B)“Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including the women and children. 11 And this is the thing that you shall do: (C)You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has known a man intimately.” 12 So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known a man intimately; and they brought them to the camp at (D)Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

13 Then the whole congregation sent word to the children of Benjamin (E)who were at the rock of Rimmon, and announced peace to them. 14 So Benjamin came back at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead; and yet they had not found enough for them.

15 And the people (F)grieved for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a void in the tribes of Israel.

16 Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?” 17 And they said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe may not be destroyed from Israel. 18 However, we cannot give them wives from our daughters, (G)for the children of Israel have sworn an oath, saying, ‘Cursed be the one who gives a wife to Benjamin.’ ” 19 Then they said, “In fact, there is a yearly (H)feast of the Lord in (I)Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east side of the (J)highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

20 Therefore they instructed the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go, lie in wait in the vineyards, 21 and watch; and just when the daughters of Shiloh come out (K)to perform their dances, then come out from the vineyards, and every man catch a wife for himself from the daughters of Shiloh; then go to the land of Benjamin. 22 Then it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, that we will say to them, ‘Be kind to them for our sakes, because we did not take a wife for any of them in the war; for it is not as though you have given the women to them at this time, making yourselves guilty of your oath.’ ”

23 And the children of Benjamin did so; they took enough wives for their number from those who danced, whom they caught. Then they went and returned to their inheritance, and they (L)rebuilt the cities and dwelt in them. 24 So the children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family; they went out from there, every man to his inheritance.

25 (M)In those days there was no king in Israel; (N)everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

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35 The Lord [a]defeated Benjamin before Israel. And the children of Israel destroyed that day twenty-five thousand one hundred Benjamites; all these drew the sword.

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  1. Judges 20:35 Lit. struck

18 (A)Zebulun is a people who jeopardized their lives to the point of death,
Naphtali also, on the heights of the battlefield.

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32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is with our father this day in the land of Canaan.’

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